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CONFEDERATE    STATES 


ALMANAC, 


AXI) 


iimwm  OF  USEFUL  KliOWLEDGE, 


YOii    THE   YEAK 


18  63 


VrOKSBURO,    MISS. 


<:    1! 


COiN'TEISrTS 

OF    CONFEDERATE   STATES    ALMANAC    FOR    1808. 


Page. 
Signs  of  the  Zodiac — Chronological  Cycles — Moveable  Feasts, 

&c 2 

Eclipses  for  1868 — Equinoxes  and  Solstices — Planets,  &c  —  3 

Principal  Bodies  in  the  Solar  System,  Time,  &c 4 

Calendar,  Phenomena,  &c 5 

(Constitution  of  the  Confederate  States. . .- 17 

Organization  of  the  Confederate  States,  Representation,  &c.  31 
Salaries  of  Executive  Officers — Government  of  Confederate 

States 32 

First  Congress  of  Confederate  States — Length  of  Terms 32 

Our  Indian  Relations 34 

Production  of  BreadstufFs — Statistics  from  Census  of  1860. .  36 

Domestic  and  Indian  Missions 39 

Assessed  Value  of  Personal  and  Real  Estate  of  LTnited  States 

in  1860 40 

Liabilities  of  the  Confederate  States 41 

Cotton  and  Sugar  crop  of  1862 41 

State  Governments  of  the  Confederate  Str.tes 43 

Population  of  the  Confederate  States  and  Territories. .......  44 

Rates  of  Postage  in  the  Confederacy 44 

Population  of  the  principal  cities  in  tlie  Confederacy 40 

Patent  Office  Report 4G 

Northern  and  Southern  Commerce 47 

Condition  of  the  Banks  in  the  South 49 

Postmaster  General's  Report 51 

Financial  Condition  of  the  Confederacy 52 

State  Finances — Louisiana,  Alabama,  Arkansas,  etc 55 

Statistics  of  Hogs 59 

Railroads  in  the  South GO 

Census  of  1860 61 

Cotton  Supply  and  Consumption  of  Europe 62 

Circuit  Courts  in  the  Confederacy,  &c G3 

Soipe  of  the  Principal  Colleges  and  Professional  Schools,  kc.  65 

Diary  of  the  War  for  Separation 66 


THE 


CONFEDERATE    STATES 


ALMANAC, 


Axn 


REPOSITOIiY  OF  USEFUL  KIOWLFDGF, 


FOR    THE   YEAR 


1863 


II.    O.    03L.A.R,Ii:E, 

VICKSBURG,    MISS. 


^x    Ix 


Entered  according  to  Act  of  Congress,  in  the  year  1861,  by 
H ,  C .     C  L  A  K  E  E  , 


In  the  Clerk's  office  of  the  District  Court  of  the  Confederate  States^ 
for  the  District  of  Mississippi, 


■■  f  >  • 


P  R  E  P^  A  C  E 


The  seoond  volume  of  the  Confederate  folates  Almanac  \<  now 
offered  to  the  people  of  the  South.  Tlie  publisher  is  jjcrfectinfj 
arrangements  that  will  insure  the  permanent  issue  of  the  work 
t3very  year.  The  leading  object  of  the  publication  will  he  to  make 
it  the  repository  of  the  largest  i)ossible  amount  of -useful  informa- 
tion, embracing  every  variety  of  knowledge.  Annual  statistics 
from  all  the  States  in  the  Confederacy,  showing  the  progress  in 
Population,  Manufactures,  Commerce,  Wealth  and  all  the  elements 
of  prospei'ity.  The  contents  of  this  volume  is  not  altogether  per- 
fect, or  full,  in  some  details  of  statistics.  ^ 

OM'ing  to  the  state  of  affairs  in  the  country,  the  compiler  found 
it  impossible  to  obtain  full  Reports  from  all  the  States.  Of  the 
in/ormation  contained  in  this  volume,  great  ])ains  ha?  been  taken 
to  make  them  as  accurate  as  possible  from  the  resources  at  hand. 
The  lieports  of  the  Departments  of  the  Confederate  Government 
have  been  taken  from  the  latest  official  documents,  and  will  be 
found  interesting. 

The  financial  resources  of  individual  States  were  taken  from  the 
last  Reports.  Much  valuable  information  has  been  compiled  from 
tlie  United  States  census  of  1860,  which  Avill  be  found  ^xceedingly 
interesting  at  the  present  time. 

The  Astronomical  calculations,  Arc,  have  been  prepared  by 
Thomas  P.  Ashmore,  of  Georgia.  '  The  calculations  will  be  found 
full  and  accurate.  In  a  work  like  this,  designed  to  embrace  so 
much  variety  of  matter,  there,  is  no  doubt  some  errors.  The 
compiler  would  be  under  obligations  to  the  patrons  of  the  work 
for  any  valuable  hints,  communications  or  correction  of  errors,  or 
improvements  in  the  Almanac.     Address  the  publisher. 

ViCKsnuKfi.  Miss. 


1863  1863 


THE 


^auUAttuU  States 

ALMANAC, 

AMD 

REPOSITORY  OF  USEFUL  KNOWLEDGE, 

FOR  1863. 


Being  the  Third  Year  of  the  Independence  of  the  Confederate 
States  of  America. 


^UGUSTA,  GA., 

VICKSBURG,  MISS., 

K.  O. 

cla.e,k:e, 

PCBLISHBR, 

1863. 

Vol*  QncL. 

,1st  Series- 

1863 ALMANAC. 1863. 


SIGNS  OF  THE  ZODIAC  AND  INFLUEITCK  OT  THE  HOOK 

The  Moon  is  supposed  by  some  to  have  a  special  influence  upon  differ- 
ent parts  of  the  bodies  of  men  and  animals,  as  it  passes  through  the  signs  ol 
the  Zodiac.  The  following  cut  is  inserted  for  the  sake  of  those  who  be- 
lieve in  this  imaginary  influence,  and  is  intended  to  represent  the  part  of  the 
body  affected  by  the  Moon  when  it  is  in  any  paiticular  sign  of  the  Zodiac. 
By  finding  the  Moon's  place  in  the  proper  column  of  the  calendar  pages, 
and  comparing  it  with  this  cut,  the  particular  part  which  is  supposed  to  be 
afl'ected,  will  beat  once  seen.  Thus,  when  the  Moon  is  in  Aries  (fp),  it 
is  su|>pcsed  to  influence  the  head  and  face;  when  in  Capricornus  (V5) 
the  knees,  etc 

HP  Governs  the  Face  and  Head. 


n 
Arms. 


Heart. 


Keins. 
Thighs. 


Legs. 


Neck, 

Breast 

Bowels 


Secrets 


V5' 
Knees. 


X  Feet. 


NAMES  AND  CHARACTERS  OF  THE  SIGNS  OF  THE  ZODIAC. 

If"'  Aries,  the  Ram.  ^  Taurus,  the  Bull,  n  Gemini,  the  Twins.  9B 
Cancer,  the  Crab.  ^  Leo,  the  Lion.  TI3J  Virgo,  the  Virgin.  :£z  Libra,  the 
Balance.  Tt]^  Scorpio,  the  Scorpion,  f  Sagittarius,  the  Archer.  V5>  Cap- 
ricornus, the  Goat.     CCi  Aquarius,  the  Waternfan.     K  Pisces,  the  Fishes. 


CHRONOLOGICAL  CYCLES. 


Dominical  Letter, D. 

Golden  Number, 2 

Kpact,  (Moon's  age,)  Jan.  Ist 11 


Solar  Cycle, 24 

Roman  Indiction, « 6 

Julian  Period 6576 


MOVEABLE  FEASTS  OF  THE  CHURCH. 


Septuagesima  Sunday,  Feb.      1 

Quin.  or  Shrove  Sunday,  Feb.    15 

Aflh..Wednesday,  Feb.    18 

Palm  Sunday,  Mar.  29 

Easter  Sunday.  April     5 


Rogation  Sunday, 
Ascension  Day, 
Whit-Sunday, 
Advent  SiHiday 


May  10 
May  U 
May  94 
Not  39 


1863— ALMAWAO 18WJ. 


4 
5 
6 

7 

17     38. 

24     36. 

31     18. 

1       0. 

1 

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38     16. 
37     lb. 

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2h.  36ra. 

A.  M., 

ECIilPSES    FOR     1863. 

The  first  will  be  of  the  Sun,  on  the  17th  of  May.  at  llh.  15m.  A.  M., 
inTisible  in  America. 

The  second  will  be  a  total  Eclipse  of  the  Moon,  on  the  lit  day  of  June, 
partially  visible,  and  is  calculated  to  apparent  time,  as  follaws  : 

DAT.  b'b.  mi>.   sic. 
The  Eclipse  begins  on  June      -     -     •»     -     1, 
Beffinning  of  total  darkness       »•---" 
End  of  total  darkness  .----•• 

The  Moon  will  rise  at  Augusta      -     -     -     «• 
vvith  7  2-10  digits   eclipsed  on  her 
Western  limb. 
The  Echpse  will  end        --.---'' 

Duration  of  visibility " 

The  third  will  be  of  the  Sun,  on  the  11th  of  Nov. 
visible  in  America. 

The  fourth  will  be  of  the  Moon,  on  the  25th  day  of  November,  visible 
and  nearly  total  throughout  the  continent  of  America,  and  is  calculated 
to  apparent  tim^,  as  follows  : 

DAT.   H'B.  MIM.    SKO. 

Beginning  at  Augusta,  Ga-, Nov.  25  1  57  14.  "] 

Middle  of  Eclipse "  3  37  53.  |g 

Ecliptic  Opposition "  3  43  21.  )■    . 

End  of  Eclipse "  5  18  3Q.  \< 

Duration    "  3  21  18.  J 

Digits  eclipsed  11  1-2,  on  the  Moon's  north  limb. 

At  the  greatest  obscuration,  about  1-24  part  of  the  Moon's  diameter, 
will  remain  uneclipsed. 

EQUINOXES    AND    SOLSTICES. 

Vernal  Equinox, '. (Spring  begins) March   2Ist. 

Summer  Solstice, (Sumj^er  begins) June      2l8l. 

Autumnal  Equinox, (Autumn  begins). Sept.      23d. 

Winter  Solstice, (Winter  begins) Dec.      21st. 

ASPECTS  OF  THE  PLANETS. 

The  Planet  Venus  will  be  Evening  Star  till  Septen/l)er  29th,  then  Morn- 
ing Star  till  the  end  of  the  year. 

Jupiter  will  be  in  opposition  with  the  Sun,  on  the  12th  of  April,  wheo  h« 
will  shine  with  hii  greatest  brilliancy. 

Saturn  will  be  in  opposition  with  the  Sun,  on  the  20th  of  March,  when 
he  will  be  brightest. 

Mars  will  be  too  near  the  Sun  to  afford  any  favorable  opportunity  of  view- 
ing him  this  year. 

THE  TWELVE  SIGNS  OF    •  H  E  ZODIAC. 

Spring  Signs, 1.  K  Pisct*.       2.  T  Arier.  3.    «   Taurus 

Summer  Signs, 4.  n   Geminii     5.  S  Cancer.         6.  ^  Leo. 

Autumn  Sign? 7.  ITP  Virgo.        8.  sfc  Libra,  9.  Tl^  Scorpio, 

Winter  Sign*.    .....10.   i    Sagitt'usU.  V^  Capri'us.      12.  'z.  Aquarius. 

The  first  six  ar-<  called  Northern  Signs,  and  the  other  six  Southern  Signs 


1863— ALMAW1C--1863. 


TABLE  OF  THE  PRINCIPAL  BODIES 

JN  THE  SOLAR  SYSTEM. 

Veloci- 

D»n«i- 

Mean 

Mean  Di."*- 

RoTolu- 

RpToln- 

ty  per 

Size— the 

ty- 

^*«^l' 

NAMES. 

Diame- 

tance from 

tioHar'd 

tion  on 

m.  in 

Earth 

£arth 

Earth 

ter. 

the  Sur^ 

the  Sun. 

Axifl. 

orbit. 

being  1. 

b'ng  1  b'ng  1 

Miles. 

Mile.4. 

yrs.  days 

d.  h.  M. 

Miles. 

Thb  Sun.. 

883,246 
3,224 

25    9  59 
1    0    5 

"1,827 

1,412,921,101 
0,053 

0.252 
i.)20 

Infin- 

Mercury.. 

36,814,000 

....     88 

6.680 

Venus  .... 

7,687 

68,787,000 

....  224 

..  23  21 

1,338 

0,909 

0.923 

1.911 

The  Earth 

7,912 

95,103,000 

1     ... 

..  23  56 

1,138 

1,000 

J.OOO 

1.000 

The  Moon 

2,180 

95,103,000 

1     ... 

27    7  43 

38 

0,020 

0.615 

1.000 

Mars 

4,189 

144,908,000 

1    321 

1     0  37 

921 

0,125 

0.948 

0.431 

Jupiter  ... 

80,170 

494,797,000 

11     215 

..     9  56 

496 

1,456,000 

0  238 

0,037 

Saturn  . . . 

79,042 

907,168,000 

29     167 

..   10  29 

368 

771,000 

0.138 

aoil 

Uranus ... 

35,112 

1,824,290,000 

84        6 

1  13  33 

259 

89,000 

0.242 

0.003 

Neptune.. 

41,r,00 

2,854,099,000 

164    226 

208 

143,000 

0,140 

0.001 

Note.— 

There  ai 

e  more  than  1 

ifty  smal 

i  Planets  or  Asleroids,  between  the  orhit  of 

Mars  and  Jupiter. 


MEAN  AND  APPARENT  TIME. 
Mean  Tim 2  is  the  time  indicated  by  a  well-regulated  clock  or  watch  run- 
uiiig  without  variation,  so  as  to  niBke  the  day,  or  24  hours,  equal  to  the 
Mean  Time  at  which  the  Sun  comes  to  the  meridian  during  the  year.  Ap- 
parent Time  is  the  time  which  makes  the  Sun  come  to  the  meridian  every 
day  at  12  o'clock.  On  accomit  of  the  eliplicily  of  the  earth's  orbit,  and 
its  inclination  to  the  equator,  the  sun  does  not  always  come  to  the  merid- 
ian in  exactly  the  same  time  ;  and  hence.  Apparent  Time  is  irregular,  and 
either  gradually  falls  behind  Meap  Time,  or  gains  on  it,  sometimes  to  the 
amount  of  more  than  sixteea  minutes.  When  the  Sun  comes  to  the  merid- 
ian earlier  than  the  Mean  Time,  it  is  said  to  be  fast:  but  when  it  comes  to 
it  later,  it  is  said  to  be  slow  ;  aud  the  amount  by  which  Apparent  Time 
differs  from  Mean  Time  is  called  the  Equation  of  Time.  In  order  to  set 
a  timepiece  according  to  Mean  Time,  it  is  necessary  to  have  a  dial,  or  noon 
mark  ;  aud  allowance  must  be  made  for  the  Equation  of  Time.  This 
Almanac  is  in  Mean  Tima.  _ 


EXPLANATION  OF  THE  SIGNS  U SILD  IN  THIS  ALMANAC. 

^  New  Mt)')T,  and  Moon  generally,  d  First  Quarter,  O  Eull  Moon,  > 
Last  Quarter  Q  Moou's  ascending  node,  or  dragon's  head.  Q  Moon* 
descending  node,  dr  dragon's  tail.  In  AroGEii— Moon  farthest  from  the 
Earth  In  PKaroEE-  ^^'foon  nearest  the  eailh.  ^  Highest — Moon  fai 
theel  Noiih  ^  Lo\^  ost  -Moon  farthest  S'uth.  »?  Saturn.  ?  Venus 
cJ  near  to  rether.  2^  Tupiter.  ^  Mercuiy  D  ^^0  deg.  apart,  §  Oppo- 
sition Of  180  degrees  apart       $   Mars,     7*  Stars,     i^  Sun.     ^   Herschel. 

Complete  Court  Calendari?,  &c.  for  the  States  of  Alabama  and  Tennessee,  will  b* 
inserted  in  orders  of  10  gross  and  upwards  from  dealars  ordering  tor  circulation  in 
those  states  respectirely. 


Note.  Any  person  solving  ten  of  the  Problems  contained  in  this  Alma- 
nac, and  sending  to  me  at  Americus,  Ga.,  by  the  15th  of  May  next,  the  cor- 
rect answers  to  the  same,  shall  have  the  same  acknowledged  in  the  Almanac 
for  1864 

A  few  original  problems  for  1864,  are  solicited.  They  mugt  be  thorough- 
ly solved  and  explained,  in  order  to  meet  with  attention 

T.  P.  ASHMORB. 


1st  Month,] 


JANUARY,  1863. 


[31  Day«^ 


/MOOivfS  PHASES. 

D.      H.    M. 

Full  Moon,        4  9  46  eve. 

'Last  Quarter  J 2  1  43  eve. 

New  Moon,     19  9  54   mo. 

'First  Quarter,  26  3  45  eve. 


PROBIiEMS. 

1.  What  must  be  the  diameter  of  a 
balloon,  in  order  that  it  may  ascend  withj 
four  persons,  weighing  each  160  pounds,! 
and  the  balloon   and  bag  of  pand  weigh 
ing  60  pounds. 


p. 


D 

of 

M.!  w 


I  Sun  I  Sun 
Various  Phenomena,    [nsesisets 

H.M.'ir.M. 


Moon 


•5^  n  &sts 


§3' 


I'Thur  jNew  Year's  Day. 
2 


Cold{7 
Frid    :0  '"  Perigee  andl 

Satur  '  C  highe&t  chilly  weather  1 
^S.      Princeton  Battle,  1777.',7 
Mon    f  Cloudy  andl 

6'Tues   lEpiphauy.  cold.'l 

7;  Wed    i  7 

8|Thur  !Bat.  N.  Orleans,  1815.     7 
9iFrid    j  Fair  and  frosty,! 

lOj Satur   Aldebaran   sou  9h  8m.    1 
ll|     S.    iAla.  &  Fla.  seced.,  '61.7 

Now  more  jileasajit^^  59j5 

Richard  II.  killed,  149().:6  59  5 

N.  E.  WindsfS  585 

and  manyS  58  5 

^  lowest  dark  6  57  5 


4  4  56;  n 

3:4  57^ 
3*4  57  2d 
3'4  57 
2:4  58'^ 


2  4  58 
2'4  58 
14  59 
li4  59 


^fJ? 


12'Mon 
13jTues 
14|Wed 
ISjThur 
lielFrid 


0!5 
0|5 


njSatur   Bat.  Cowp.ens,  1781.       6  .575 

^18|     S.     ,  flying  clouds.  (^  ^(^.^ 

|l9iMon  jCapella  sou.  9h.  11m.  6  555 
<2Q|Tuea  t  ^  tenters  ox  Geo  sec  '61,6  55  5 
]2llWed    j  High  winds  from^  ^^^ 

'22jThur  iRigel  sou.  8h.  48m.  6  54  5 
I^SjFrid    !  ^'  ^y-  and  cold.  6  58  5 

i24jSatur  'Augusta  arsenal  tak  '61  6  5*^5 
125:     ^.     '  -  -       -  -  ' 

J27,Tues 

i28JWed 

29:Thur 

:?o}Frid 

!31|Satwr 


il 

'At 

2 

4 

5! 

6:k 

6 


91 


H.     M. 

~4~5 
5     0 

5  5t) 
rises 

6  15 

7  8 

8  20 

9  13 

10  18 

11  25 
morn. 

0  30 


Higk  tidei 

H. 

M.  j 

7 

55 

lOj 

8 

s: 

9 

.?! 

9  45 

10  26 


2i 
38 
14i 


0  47 


1  40 

2  5»0 
8  46 

4  4^. 

5  30 

6  31 
sets. 


1  24 

2  2 
i  46 

3  471 
0 

21 

30 

16 

2 


i  6   ^0'   9  45; 
7  34' 10  25! 

351  n 


Cold  and  f\  51  5 
Sirius  sou.  lOh.  Mm.     ,65i5     >^b 
Cloudy,^  50  5  iu| 
Perhaps  snow  6  49j5  ll!n 
ProfF.  C,  Bond  died  59.|6  48j5  lil 
d   highest.  ,     16  4815  12125 

or  sleet,  t"  4l\^  131 


9  t] 
10  10 
|11  8 
Inborn. 
'  0     7 

1  8 

2  2 
2  56    5 


5 

1  1    45 
Morn.f 

0  28 


3  40 


IS 

591 

57 

9 

34 

6  5- 


«d  Month.]              FEBRUARY,   18H3                |28  DAys.|| 

MOON'S  PHASES. 

2.  If  the  mercury  in  a  barometer,  at| 

the  bottom   of  a  tower,  be  observed  to 

D*      H«   M 

stand  at  30  inches,  and,  on  bemg  carried^ 

to  the  top  of  it,  be  observed  29,9  inches,! 

Full  Mocn        3     4  39  eve. 

what  is  the  height  of  the  tower? 

Last  Quarter  11     1  51    mo. 

3'  Suppose  a  piece  of  marble  contains 

New  Moon      17     9  30  eve. 

8  cubic    feet,    and  weighs    1,353 J  lbs., 
what  is  the  specific  gravity  ? 

First  Quarter  25  x9  16   mo.- 

D. 

D. 

Sun 

Sun 

'> 

Moon 

High  tide  1 

of 

oi 

Various  Phenomena. 

rises 

sets 

IS 

ri.  St. 

Savuunah.l 

M 

1 

W 

» 

s. 

11.  M. 

II.  M. 

Ti 

II.    M. 

H.     M. 

Septuagesima  S. 

6  46 

5  14 

4   20 

H         1| 

2 

Men. 

Purification  B.  V.  Mary. 

6  45 

5  15 

5   15 

8     49: 

3 

Tue. 

Fair  and  frosty. 

6  44 

5  16 

^]i 

5  47 

9    32 

4 

Wed. 

[1780 

6  44 

5  16 

rises. 

10      9 

5 

Thu. 

Earthquake  at  Sicily, 

6  43 

5  17 

^ 

8   30 

10    431 

6 

Fri. 

Damp  and 

6  42 

5  18 

9   14 

11     14! 

7 

Satu. 

Sirius  sou.  9h.  25rH. 

6  41 

5  19 

ia 

10  25 

li     46' 

8 

S. 

cloudy  weather. 

6  40 

5  20 

11      0 

E      15! 

9 

Mon. 

6  39 

5  21 

1 

11    30 

0    49! 

10 

Tue. 

Pro.  Gov.  Con.Slat.'61. 

6  38 

5  22 

11    59 

I     24I 

11 

Wed. 

Revolution  in  Domingo, 

6  37 

5  23 

morn. 

2       4l 

12 

Thu. 

d   lowest.               [1807. 

0  30 

5  24 

V5' 

0  36 

2    53| 

13 

Fri 

Wind  and 

0  36 

5  24 

1   48 

4      81 

14 

Sat. 

Valentines               cold. 

6  35 

5  25 

-xc 

2  43 

5    29! 

15 

S. 

Quiquag.   Sun. 

6  :'.4 

5  26 

3  36 

6    47i 

16 

Mon. 

Melancthon  born,  1497. 

6  33 

5  27 

4  50 

7    52l 

17 

Tue. 

Siriua  south.s  Hh.  50m. 

0  32 

5  28 

K 

sets. 

8    37! 

18 

Wed. 

Ash  Wednesday. 

6  31 

5  29 

7  30 

9    22I 

19 

Thu. 

Sun  enters   K 

6  :M) 

5  30 

^ 

8  41 

10    2I 

20 

Fri 

Much  cloudy. 

6  -.iO 

5  31 

9  39 

10    44 

21 

Sat. 

weather  and 

6  28 

5  :^2 

10  25 

11    27! 

22 

S, 

Washington  born,  1732. 

6  27 

5  33 

« 

10  49 

morn. 

23 

Mon. 

some  rai%. 

6  26 

5  34 

11   20 

0    16 

24 

Tue. 

St.  Malhias. 

6  25 

5    >5 

n 

11   58 

0    54 

25 

Wed. 

Now  more  'pleasant. 

6  24 

5  :^.') 

morn. 

1    41 

26 

Thu. 

d  highest. 

6  23 

.=     7 

qs 

0  56 

2    36 

27 

Frid. 

Procyon  south  9h.  3m. 

6  22 

5  38 

1   47 

3    49 

28 

Satu. 

at  the  end  of  this  month. 

6  21 

5  39 

61 

2  36 

5    16 

j(«d  Month.]                  MARCH,    186S.                    [31  Dayi. 

MOON'S  PHASES. 

4.  The  diameter  of  a  balloon  is  3,665 

D.     H.      M. 

feet,  what  weight  isj  it  capable  of  raiisngt 

TuIIMoon         i     »    21  mo 

5.  What  is  the  solidity  in  inehes  of 

Last  Quarter  13     0    15  eve 
New  Moen      19     9    17  mo 
First  Quarter  27     3     14  mo 

several  fragments  or  clear  glass,  whose 
weight  is  13  ounce*? 

DT 

D 

Sun 

jSun 

^H 

Moon 

Hi«h  rifle 
Sftvan'ak 

of 

of 

Various  Phenomena. 

rises 

sets 

S  " 

ri.tsts 

M 

W 

H.M. 

H.M. 

X    PL. 

H.     M. 

H.    M. 

1 

A'. 

St.  David. 

6  20 

5  40 

3  35 

6  40j 

2 

Men 

Procyou  Sou.  9  h.  48  m. 

6  19 

5  41 

w 

4     6 

7  43 

a 

Tues 

Fair  and  frosty. 

6  18 

5  42 

4  44 

8  29 

4 

Wed 

Pollux  Sou.  8  h.  44  m. 

6  17 

5  43 

Z^ 

5   19 

9   10 

5 

Thur 

La  Place  died,  1827. 

6  16 

5  44 

rises. 

9  43 

6 

Frid 

Cloudy  and  damp. 

6  15 

5  45 

^ 

7     7 

10  17 

7 

Satur 

RegulusSou.  10  h.  56  m. 

6  14 

5  46 

8       0 

10  46 

8 

S. 

Cold  winds. 

6  13 

5  47 

8  53 

11   17 

9 

Men 

RegulusSou.  10  h.  48m. 

6  12 

5  48 

t 

9  45 

11  48 

10 

Tues 

from  the  N.  W. 

6  11 

5  49 

10  37 

Ev.l8 

!  11 

Wed 

D  lowest. 

6  10 

5  50 

\s 

11   29 

0  59 

1  ^^ 

Thur 

6     9 

5  51 

morn. 

1   301 

1  13 

Frid 

J^  discovered  1781. 

6     8 

5  52 

ceo 

0  20 

2  19' 

3  24 

14 

Satur 

More  mild. 

6     7 

5  53 

1    10 

15 

S 

Jackson  born.  1767. 

6    6 

5  54 

1  57 

4  51 

16 

Men 

Regulus  sou.  10  h.  21m. 

6    5 

5  55 

K 

2  43 

6   11 

17 

Tues 

St.  Patrick. 

6    4 

5  56 

3  27 

7  18| 

18 

Wed 

Stormy  and 

6    3 

5  57 

np 

4     9 

8     8i 

19 

Thur 

unpleasant  weather. 

6     2 

5  58 

sets. 

8  58 

20 

Frid 

b  8^  b  rises 5  h.59m. 

6     1 

5  59 

7  40 

9  85 

21 

Satur 

Days  aDd  nights  equal. 

6     0 

6    0 

« 

8  35 

10  21 

22 

S. 

Fair  and  more 

5  59 

6     1 

9     0 

11     4 

23 

Mon 

Regulus  sou.  9h.  58  m. 

5  58 

6    2 

n 

10     0 

11  51 

24 

Tues 

pleasant. 

5  57 

6    3 

10  45 

Morn. 

25 

Wed 

Annunciation  B.  V.  M. 

5  58 

6    4 

11   25 

0  34 

26 

Thur 

^  highest. 

5  55 

6    5 

s 

11  59 

1  21 

vr 

Frid 

Cloudy  and 

5  54 

6    6 

morn 

2  21 

28 

Satur 

War  with  Russia,  '54. 

5  53 

6    7 

a 

0  40 

3  2ff 

4  54 

29 

s. 

Palm  Sun.       some  ram. 

5  52 

6     8 

1   35 

80 

Mon 

Regulus  sou.  9h.  26m. 

5  51 

6    9 

n 

2  20 

8  11 

JL 

Tues 

Calhoun  died,  1850. 

5  50 

6  10 

3  45 

7  \& 

1th  Month,] 


APRIL,  1863. 


[30  Days. 


MOON'S 


Full  Moon 
Last  Quarter 
New  Moon 
First  Quarter 


PHASES. 

D. 

H.    M. 

3 

11     3  eve. 

10 

9  14  eve 

17 

i)  47  eve. 

25 

8  22  eve. 

6  A  miller  has  a  head  of  water  four 
feet  above  the  sluice,  how  high  must  the 
water  be  raised  above  the  opening  so  that 
half  as  much  again  water  may  be  dis- 
charged from  the  sluice  in  the  same  time  1 


M 


D. 

of 
W 


Various  Phenomena. 


iVVed 
2Thur 
3Frid 
4Satur 
5    S 
6JMon 
7|Tues 
QjWed 
9Thur 
lOFrid 


15 
16 
17 

18 

)9 

1 20 

21 

22 

.23 

(24 

{25 

26 

27 

28 

29 

30 


Satiir 

S. 
Mon 
l4^Tue8 
Wed 
Thur 
Frid 
Satur 

S. 
Mon 
Tues 
Wed 
Thur 
Frid 
Batu 
S. 

Men 
Tues 
Wed 
Thur 


Regulus  sob.  9h.  18rn. 
Pleasant  weather. 
Good  Friday-  for 

W.  H.  Harrisoi>d'd'41.! 
East.  Sunday  [planting. 
Easter  Monday. 
d  lowest. 

Rain  with  Thunder. 
Edward  IV.  died  1483. 
Bat.  of  Toulouse,  1814, 
Pittsburg  burned,  1845. 
If  <9  ^  2|  f  ises  6h.  22m. 
Fort  Sumter  taken,  '61. 
Embargo  repealed  1314 
Spica  sou.    llh.  ^Dm. 

Warm  for  this 
Virginia  seceded,  1861, 


Sun I Sun 
rises  sets 

H.M.  H.M. 


3:2 


5  33 

month.]b  32 


#  cniers    $ 


[near. 


d  d  ?  at  2h  8m  aft.  veryp  30 
Cloudy  and 

d  highest.  windy, 

St.   George. 

Brazil  discoveredj  1500,' 
St.  Mark.         Fair  and 
Spica  sou.  lOh.  56m. 
Arcturus  sou.  llh,  44ra. 
\^''olfe  killed,  175». 

pleasant  weather. 
Washington  inaug.  '89. 


5149 
5  48 
5  47 
5  46 
5  45 
5  44 
5  43 
5  42 
5  41 
o  40 
5  39 


TH. 


6  11 
6  12 
6  13 
6  14 
6  15 
6  16 
6  171V5' 
6  18 
6  19 
6  20| 
6  21i 


5  38  6  22 


5  37 
5  36 
5  35 


5  34  6  26 


5  31 


5  29 
5  28 
5  27 
5  26 
5  25 
5  24 
5  23 
2 


6  23 
6  24 
6  25^ 


6  27 
6  28 
6  29 
6  30 
6  31 
6  32 
6  39 
6  84 
6  85 
6  86 
6  37 
6  88 
5  21|6  39 
5  20;6  40 


X 


T 


D 


fi 


W 


A 


oon 

ri&sts 

H.  M. 


High  tide 
SiivaiKiah 


H. 


4  35 

5  2 
rises. 

7     0 

7  5^ 

8  36 

9  21 

10  2(1 

11  18 
moT-n. 

0  15 

1  21 

2  26 

3  35 

4  50 

5  52 
seta 

7  30 

8  18 

9  0 
9  42 

10  31 

11  14 
11  58} 
morn. 

0  40 

1  31 

2  22 

3  11 

4  0 


8      4if 

8  42 

9  16 
9  48 

10  10 

10  48 

11  20 
11  42 
E.  27 

1     8 

1  57 

2  58 

4  18 

5  33 

6  43 

7  37 

8  29 

9  11 
9  59 

10  47 

11  32{4 
Morn. 

0  17 

1  5 

2  1 

3  21 

4  18 

5  26 

6  32 

7  25| 


5th  Month,] 


MAY,  1863. 


[81  Days. 


MOON'S  PHASES. 

D.     H.     M. 

Full  Moon  3  9  43  mo. 
Last  Quarter  10  5  10  mo. 
New  Moon  17  11  15  mo. 
First  Quarter  2$  11  23  mo. 


7.  WAat  is  the  velocity  of  water  is 
suing  from  a  head  of  water  5  feet  deep? 

8.  What  is  the  difference  between  the 
length  of  a  pendulum,  which  vibratef 
half  seconds,  and  one  which  swings  3 
seconds  ? 


D 

of 
W 


ItFrid 
2  Satur 


Various  Phenomena. 


i  Sun;  Sun Lq  ^ 

Irises'  sets  §  % 


H.M.  H.M 


St.  Philip  6i^  St.  James.|5  20*6  40) 
War 771  anddry\5  19;6  41'^ 


3    S.     ITennessee  seceded  '61.(5  18:6  42| 
4Mon    Robert  Grier  died,   '48.'5  17;6  43| 

5  Tues  [Moon  lowest.        Damp^^  16:6  44  75* 

6  Wed  'iHumboldt  died  '59.         ^5  15;6  45 

7  Thur 

8  Frid 


!  and  inucli^  15  6  45 

'  cloudy  weather.^  l^^  4:^        11   21 

9;Satur  Arcturua  30u    lOh  56m.'5  13,'6  47|x  }11   59 


lOj  S. 
lllMon 


5  12  6  48       'morn. 


Tues 

Wed 

Thur 

Frid 

Satur 

Mon  i 


Rogation  Sunday. 

Rain  witlib  12,6  481 
Antares  sou  Ih  Om.         ;5  llle  49  T 

thunder:^  10;6  50 

Ascension  day.  i5 

Now  ice  may^ 

expect^ 

Sun  eclipsed  invisible.    5 


a  fine  growing 


Tues  Moon  highest. 


20  Wed  ;Sun  onterci  n       season.  5 

21  Thur  I  till  the  cnd'p 

22  Frid   !  of  thisp 

23  Satur  Irish  rebellion  com.  '98. j5 

24  S.     IWhit  Sunday.  5 

25  Mon  jWhit  Monday,      month.l^ 

26  Tues  I  John  Calvin  died,  1564.15 

27  Wed  Fair'p 
26  Thur  !  and  pleasant.^ 
29|Fiid  jGen.  Putnam  died,  '90. |5 
SOlSatur  jAlex.  Pope  died,  1744.  '5 
3!l    S,    '.Trinity  Sunday.  5 


916  51  «  j  3  36j  6  4 

9^6  51       I  4  41!  7  6 

8'6  52       \  5  58|  8  1 

7j6  53  n  I  sets.     8  51 

7  6  53'         8     21  9  44 

6|6  54J2S  i  8  5l|l0  32 

56  55:  {  9  40  11  16 
5^6  55-0,  ilO  36'Morn. 
4  6  56 
46  56:n| 
8J6  57i 
3;6  57U 


jlO  501  0 

11   3l|  0 


2i6  58i 
2:6  58| 
I'S  59;]1t 
16  59j 
0:7    o\t 
0,7    Ol 


11  58| 
morn.! 

0  521 

1  47 


fjf.ll 

Month.]                    JUNE,   1863. 

[30  Days.f 

MOON'S   PHASES. 

9-    I  observed,   that   while    a    stone 
was  falling  from  a  precipice,  a  string, 

D.     H.      M. 

with  a  bullet  at  the  end,  whic^  measur- 

Full Moon         16     1  eve. 

ed  25  inches  to  the  middle  of  the  ball. 

Last  Quarter     8     1  13  eve. 

had  made  five  vibrations,  what  was  the 

New  Moon       16     1  54  mo. 
First  Quarter  24     0  19  mo. 

height  of  the  precipice! 

|D.     D 

Sun 

Sun  ,^^|  Moon 

f  ligh  tide 

of     of 

Various  Phenomena. 

rises 

sets 

ri  &sts 

1   avannab 

M     W 

H.M. 

H. 

M. 

a  fa 

H.     M. 

H.      M. 

1 

Mon 

Moon  eclipsed  visible. 

4  59 

T 

1 

ys 

ises. 

8    54 

2 

Tues 

Moon  lowest.    Pleasant 

4  59 

7 

1 

8     0 

9    29 

3 

Wed 

Transit  of   ?  in  1769. 

4  58 

7 

2 

/w 

8  5( 

10      7 

4 

Thur 

weather. 

4  58 

7 

2 

9  42 

10    48 

5 

Frid 

Dr.  Worcester  died  '21. 

4  58 

7 

2 

10  31 

11    17 

6 

Satur 

Cloudy  and  some 

4  57 

7 

3 

K 

11   22 

11    56 

7 

S. 

Antares  sou  llh  13m. 

4  57 

7 

3 

11   50 

E.  39 

8 

Mon 

Gen.  Jackson   died  '45. 

4  57 

7 

3 

op 

Morn. 

1    26 

9 

Tues 

S.  L.  Southard  born  '87. 

4  57 

7 

3 

0  43 

2    19 

!io 

Wed 

Victory  at  Bethel,  1861. 

4  56 

7 

4 

s 

1   37 

3    ^0 

11 

Thur 

St.  Barnabas.          rain. 

4  56 

7 

4 

2  25 

4    30 

12 

Frid 

Warm 

4  56 

7 

4 

n 

3  25 

5    35 

13 

Satur 

and  unpleasant. 

4  56 

7 

4 

4  35 

6    43 

14 

S. 

Moon  highest. 

4  56 

7 

4 

5  4(1 

7    45 

15 

Mon 

Rain  with  thunder. 

4  56 

7 

4 

25 

6  48 

8    40 

16 

Tues 

Pres.  Polk  died,  1849. 

4  55 

7 

5 

sets. 

9    32 

|17 

Wed 

Bat.  Bunker  Hill,  1775. 

4  55 

7 

5 

i\ 

8  25 

10    20 

18 

Thur 

Bat.  Waterloo,  1815. 

4  55 

7 

5 

9     1 

11      4 

19 

Frid 

More  pleasant 

4  55 

7 

5 

W 

9  50 

11    4t; 

20 

Satur 

Q.  Vict,  crowned,  '37. 

4  55 

7 

5 

10  20 

Morn. 

21 

S. 

Sun  ent.  go.  Longest  day. 

4  55 

7 

5 

10  41 

0    28 

22 

Mon 

Antares  sou  lOh  14m. 

4  55 

7 

5 

-^ 

11   10 

1      6 

23 

Tues 

Akenside  died,  1772. 

4  55 

7 

5 

11   56 

1    54 

24 

Wed 

St.  John  Baptist. 

4  55 

7 

5 

TTl 

Morn. 

2    40 

25 

Thur 

Bish.  Gadsden  died, '52. 

4  55 

7 

5 

0  43 

3  3  3 

26 

Frid 

Bat.  Fort  Moul.  1776. 

4  55 

7 

5 

^ 

1   31 

4    39 

27 

Satur 

Monmouth  Bat.  1778. 

4  m 

7 

4 

2  33 

5    42 

28 

s. 

Warm  and 

4  66 

7 

4 

3  41 

6    44 

29 

Mon 

C  lowest.     St.  Peter. 

4  56 

7 

4 

V5> 

4  58 

7    40 

30 

Tues                       dry  weather. 

4  56 

7 

4|      '  6      0 

8    25 

7th  Month.]                   JULY,  1863.                      [31  Daysj| 

MOON'S  PHASES. 

10.  There    is   a    sluice,  one    end    of| 

D.    n.  M. 

which  ifl  2  1-2  feet  lower  tkan  Ih©  other,: 

Full  Moon         1     1     6  mo. 

whut  is  the  velocity  of  the  stream  perj 

Last  Quarter    f  10  17  eve. 

second  ?                                                         • 

New  Moon      15     5     3  eve. 

IL  If  a  ball   fall  through  a  space  of* 

First  Quarter  23   10  58  mo. 

484  feet  in  5  1-2  seconds,  with  what  ve- 

Full Moon       30     7  38  mo. 

locity  will  it  strike  t 

D. 

D 

1  Sun: Sun  „  j^- 

M«on,nu.htidJl 

of 

of        Various  Phenomena. 

risesisets 

5  " 

ri.&sts 

Savannah 

M 

W 

H.M.  H.M. 

yi  om 

H.     M. 

|H.      M. 

1 

Wed                    Svltrt/  veaiher. 

4  56,7     4 

' 

rises. 

9      7 

2 

Thur  VI*..    of  B.  V.  .Mary. 

4  56  7     4 

8  31 

9    46 

3 

Frid 

Fo.t  Krie  taken,  1814. 

4  57i7     3 

9  21 

10    26 

4 

Satur 

U.  S.  Dec.  Indei)en.'76. 

4  57,7     3 

X 

10     2 

11      3 

5 

S. 

Bat.  Che;it  Mouut,    '61. 

4  58j7     2 

10  54 

11    42 

6 

Mon 

Kaiii  villi  loud 

4  58}7    2 

11  46 

E.    24' 

7 

Tues 

thunder  and 

4  58i7    2 

cp 

morn. 

1      8' 

S 

Wed 

Antares  sou  9h  V2m. 

4  58  7     2 

0  32 

1    57 

9 

Thur 

Pres.  Taylor  died  1850.  4  597     1 

8 

1   25 

2    54 

10 

Frid 

Columbus  born,  1 447.      159  7     1 

2   17 

4      0, 

111 

Satur 

J.Q.  Adams  born,  1767. 

4  5!)  7     1 

3  21 

5    151 

|12 

S. 

Hull  invad.  Canada,'12. 

5     0 

7     0 

n 

4     0 

fi  3o; 

13 

Mon 

vivid  lightning. 

5     0 

7    0 

4  38 

7    37 

14 

Tues 

Moon  highe^t. 

5     1 

6  59 

25 

5     0 

8    33 

15 

Wed 

Antares  sou  8h  4  4m. 

5     1 

6  59 

sets. 

9    23,' 

16 

Thur 

Hegira  begins  622. 

5     2 

6  58 

a 

7  38 

10      8 

17 

Frid 

Elbridge  Gerrvb.  1739. 

5     2 

6  58 

8  26 

10    48 

18 

Satur 

Bat.  Bull  Run,' 1861. 

5     3 

6  57 

w 

9  15 

11    24r 

19 

S 

Congress  met  at  Rich'd 

5     3 

6  57 

10     0 

11    59, 

20 

Mon 

Vega  sou  lOh  3^Mn.  ['61 

5     4 

6  56 

-2- 

10  48 

Morn.; 

21 

Tues 

Bat.  Manassas  1861. 

5    5 

6  55 

11   21 

0    36 

22 

Wed 

Sun  enters  ol. 

5     5 

6  55 

ni 

11   59 

1    13 

23 

Thur 

Warm 

5    6 

6  54 

morn. 

1    53 

24 

Frid 

and 

5     6 

6  54 

t 

0  48 

2  34j 

3  35' 

25 

Satur 

St.  James.                   dry 

5    - 

6  53 

1   38 

26 

S. 

St.  Anne              t&eather. 

5     8 

6  52 

2  40 

4    49, 

27 

Mon 

Moon  lowest. 

5     8 

6  52 

V? 

3  44 

6      2, 

28 

Tues 

Dog  days  begin. 

5     9 

6  51 

4  56 

7  s; 

29 

Wed 

Rainy  and 

5  10 

6  50 

^ 

6     0 

8      i: 

30 

Thur 

stormy. 

5  U 

6  49 

rises. 

8    45 

31 

Frid 

Fomalhaut  sou  2h  13m.; 

5  11 

H  49 

X 

8  21 

9    20; 

8th  Month,] 


\UGt]ST    1863. 


[31  Days. 


MOON'S  PHASES. 

D.     M.     M 

LaBt  Quarter      6  9  28  mo. 

New  Moon       14  8  27  mo. 

First  Quarter  21  8  12  eve. 

Full  Moon        28  3  19  eve. 


12.  If  a  ball  strike  the  ground  with  a 
velocity  ol"  56  feet  per  second,  from  what 
height  did  if  fall ! 

13.  In  what  time  will  a  musket  ball, 
dropped  from  the  top  of  a  steeple  484 
feet  high,  come  to  the  ground? 


D 

of 
W 


23 


25 


1*9 
30 


31 


Satur 

S, 
Men 
Tu^s 
Wed 
Thur 
Frid 
Satur 

Moil 

Tues 

Wed 

Thur 

Frid 

Satur 

S, 
Mon 
Tues 


Various  Phenomena. 


bun 

irises 

III.  M. 


Laminae  Day.  5  12  6  48 

Sweltry  weather.  5  13  6  47 
Burr's  trial  com.    1807.5  13  6  47^0 
Brovvnstown  Bat.  1812.5  14  6  4f. 
Fomalhaut  sou  Ih  53m.  5  15  6  45  ^ 
Bat.  Hang.   Rock,  1780  5  16  6  44j 
Rain  and  thunders^  17j6  43 

Cloudy  andy)  17J6  431  n 

Bat.  Oak  Hill,  1861.      [5  is'e  42 

Moon  highest.        windy\?>  19  6  41 

weather, \b  20! 6  40 

George  IV.  born,  1762.  5  2l!6  39 


feun 

sets 

H.M. 


Hi'h  Tide 


Moon 

ri  Ac  fets  5;arannah 
H.     M.'  H.      M 


19  Wed 


Thur 

Frid 


22  Satur 


S. 


24iMon 


Tues 


26jWed 
27 


Thur 
28  Frid 
Satur 

Mon 


Now  we  may 
Altair  sou  lOh  9m. 
Bonaparte  born,  1769 
Bat.  at  Camden,  1780. 
I  expect  a  heavy 

Altair  sou  9h  53m. 

storm    of  wind  and 
Bat.  in  Mexico,  1847. 
Wm.  IV.  born,  1765. 
#  enters  TTj^.  rain. 

^  lowest,  [from    N.  E. 
?  brightest  ir*    th^  ere. 
Bp.  Bowon  di(Kl  1S39. 
Dr.  Adam  Clark  d.  '32. 
Fair  and  mild, 
Hatteras  taken  1861. 
St.  John  Bap.  beheaded 
Paley  born,  1743. 
Buayan  died,  1688. 


5  2216  38 
5  22,6  38 


5  23 
5  24 
5  25 
5  26 
5  27 


6  37 
6  36 
6  35 
6  34 
6  33 


5  28  6  32 
5  296  31 


3  30 
5  31 


6  30 

6  29 


22 


a 


n 


^11 


V5' 


9   lOlU 
9  5710 


10  47.11      23 

11  2i;Even.5 


11   541 

Morn. 

0  4l! 


36! 


lOi    9 

Sets,  j    9 

8    i:io 

8  50!]0 

9  3111 


47 
36 
2- 
36 
58 
20 
30 
23 
10 
50 
25 
59 
32 


10  22  Morn. 


32i6  28 
5  33  6  27 
>  34j(»  2/5 
')  35 
5  36 
5  37 
5  38 


K 


6  -.24 
6  23 

6  22iT 


5  39'/3  21) 


11 

10 

11 

50 

Morn. 

0 

40 

1 

n 

2 

21 

3 

25 

4 

15 

5 

16 

Ri»es.| 

7 

3ll 

8 

15j 

9 

o| 

if 

0 

1 

1 

2 
3 

5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
9 
10 


16 
36 
12 
51 

44 
57 
17 
32 
31 
18 
2 
41 
20 


mh  Month,]              SEPTEMBER,  1863.            [30  Days| 

MOON'S   PHASES. 

1 4.  If  the  attraction  of  the  moon  raise 

D.    n.     M. 

a  tide  on  the  earth  fire   feet  high,  what  || 

Last  Quarter      4  11   13  eve. 

will  be  the  height  of  a  tide,  rai»ed  by  the  [ 

New  Moon       12  11  29  eve. 

earth  on  the  surface  of  the  moon,  under  ' 

First  Quarter  20     4  41  mo. 

similar  circumstances. 

Full   Moon      27     0  32  mo. 

I). 

D.    1 

Sun 

Sun 

«  ^.  MoonjU-  Tide 

of 

of     }  Various  Phenomena. 

rises 

sets 

||ri^sts& 

M 

w  1 

H.M. 

H.M. 

*  ^\i\.    m.'h.    m. 

1 

Tues  j 

Fair  and  warm. 

5  39 

6Tl 

9  40 

il     0 

2 

Wed 

London  burn'd,  1666. 

5  40 

6  20 

b 

10  20 

11   44 

3 

Thur 

Cloudy,  and  some 

5  41 

6  19 

11   10 

ev.  27 

4 

Frid 

Altair  S.  8  h'rs  46  min. 

5  42 

6  18 

n 

morn. 

1   15 

5 

Satur : 

Dog-days  end.           rain 

5  43 

6  17 

0     2 

2     9 

6 

S.    ; 

Lafayette,  born,  1757. 

5  44 

6  16 

1  0  58 

3  20 

7 

Mon  1 

D  highest.        ivith  ihun- 

5  45 

6  15 

gs     1   43 

4  46 

8 

Tues  ' 

Bat.  Eutaw,  1781.    dcr. 

5  46 

6  14 

2  56 

6   10 

9 

Wed  i 

Fomalhautsou.llh32m 

5  47 

6  13 

a  3  2 

7   18 

10 

Thur  \ 

Bat.  Lake  Erie,  1813. 

5  48 

6  12 

4   15 

8     S' 

11 

Frid   I 

Cloudy  and 

5  49 

6  11 

TTV     5  25    8  49| 

12 

Satur ' 

damp. 

5  50 

6  10 

sets.  1  9  25 

13 

S. 

Donati's  Comet,  1858. 

5  51 

6    9 

-  j  7     OJ  9  59| 

14 

Mon 

Moscow  burned,  1812. 

5  52 

6    8 

7  54'l0  30 

l5|Tues 

Surren.  of  N.  Y.,  1776. 

5  53 

6    7 

TT|.     8  43!ll     11 

10 

Wed 

Fomalhautsou.  llh  4m, 

5  54 

6    6 

■      9  3111  32i 

17 

Thur 

Changeable  and 

5  55 

6    5 

t    10  20 

morn. 

18 

Frid 

unsettled  weather. 

5  56 

6    4 

11     5 

0   16 

19 

Satur 

Moon  lowest. 

5  57 

6    3 

V^ 

11   56 

0  36| 

20 

S. 

Stormy  and  boisterous. 

5  58 

6    2 

morn. 

\  16 

21 

Mon 

St.  Matthew. 

5  59 

6    1 

^ 

0  43 

2     5 

22 

Tues 

Weather  may  now 

6     0 

6    0 

1   32 

3  lot 

23 

Wed 

Sun  enters  ^.  Days  and 

6     1 

5  59 

j 

2  37 

4  36 

24 

Thur 

[nights  equal. 

6     2 

5  58 

iK 

3  46 

5  54 

25 

Frid 

Fomalhaut  sou.  lOh  29m 

13     3 

is  57 

! 
1 

4  28 

7      1 

26 

Satur 

be  expected  fair. 

6     4 

5  56 

;T 

5  29 

7  491 

27 

S. 

Artie  lost,  1854. 

6     5 

o  55 

! 

rises. 

8  33j 

28 

Mon 

Detroit  -retaken,  1813. 

6     6 

5  54 

i 

7  21 

9   VI 

29 

Tues 

?  d   Sun  Inferior. 

6     7 

5  53 

1 

8  10 

9  55 

30 

Wed 

Tp  c5  Sun.     St. 

Jerome. 

C     8 

5  52 

9     0 

i 

10  40 

10th  Month.]                OCTOBER,  1863.                [31  Daysj 

MOON'S  PHASES. 

15.  Suppose  a  vessel  3  feet  wide,  5  feet 

D.     H.      M. 

,Last  Quarter    4    3  27  eve. 
New  Moon      12     1  27  eve. 

long  and  4  feet  high,  what  ii  the  perpen- 
dicular pressure  on  the  bottom,  it  beiug 
filled  with  water  to  the  brim  ? 

First  Quarter  19     1  34  eve. 

Full   Moon      26     0  31  eve. 

D.     D 

1  Sun 

1  Sun!^    1  Moon 

|sets.§|;ri  &sts 

Higk  tide 

of     of 

Various    Phenomena,  [rises 

Sftvaunah 

iM. 

W 

Jh.  m. 

H.M. 

a 

H.     M. 

H.      91. 

i"l 

Thur 

H  6  '^            Cloudy  and 

6     9 

5  51 

n 

9  56 

11   24 

1    2|Frid 

Major  Andre  exe.  1780. 

6  10 

5  50 

10  43 

E.   11 

'    3 

jSatur 

damp  weather 

16  11 

5  49 

11   36 

0  58 

'    4 

I  S. 

d   highe.^t. 

6  12 

5  48 

26 

morn. 

1   55 

i    5 

Mon   JBrainard  died,  1747. 

6  13 

5    4:7 

0  21 

3     4 

I    6 

Tues 

!Fomalhaut  sou  9h  46m. 

6  14 

5  46 

a 

1    15 

4  27 

i    7 

Wed 

Bat  King  s  Mount.  '80. 

6  15 

5  45 

2  14 

5  49 

■    8 

Thur 

Cool  nights  and 

6  15 

5  45 

n 

3   12 

6  55 

1    9 

Frid 

Battle  Schleitz,  1806. 

6  16 

5  44 

4     8 

7  44 

10 

Satur 

mornings. 

6  17 

5  43|-- 

4  59 

8  25 

11 

S, 

Bahamas  discov'd  1492. 

6  18 

5  42 

5  48 

8  69 

12 

Mon 

Fair  and 

6  19 

5  41 

^ 

sets. 

9  32 

13 

Tues 

mUd  weather^ 

6  20 

5  40 

6  21 

10     3 

14 

Wed 

Fomalhaut  sou  9h  14m. 

6  21 

5  39 

/ 

7  22 

10  34 

15 

Thur 

Bank    Panic,  1857. 

6  22 

5  38 

8  28 

11     6 

16 

Frid 

Raining  and 

6  23 

^>  37 

V5 

9  86 

11  37 

17 

Satur 

Burgoyne  surrend  1777. 

6  24 

5  36 

10  42 

Morn. 

18 

S, 

St.  Luke.              stormy. 

6  25 

5  35 

11   50 

0   16 

19 

Mon 

Cornwallis  sur  1781. 

6  26 

5  34 

A(V 

morn. 

0  50 

20 

Tues 

Windy  and  cool. 

<>,  27 

5  33 

0  42 

1  35 

21 

Wed 

Fomalhjiut  sou  8h  47m. 

6  28 

5  32 

K 

1   36 

2  34 

22 

Thur 

Now  we  may  expect 

6  29 

5  31 

2  39 

3  53 

23 

Frid 

%  enters  U[. 

6  30 

5  30 

3  21 

•>     9 

24 

Satur 

frost. 

6  31 

5  29 

T  1  4  28 

6   21 

25 

S, 

7  He  sou  Ih  23m. 

6  32i 

5  28 

j  5  41 

7  16 

26 

Mon                  Changeahle  and 

6  33 

5  27 

« 

rises. 

8     4 

27 

Tues   Fomalhaut  sou  8h  23m. 

6  34 

5  26 

7      1 

8  49J 

28 

Wed  JSt.  Sim.  and  St.  Jude. 

6  35 

5  25 

7   58 

9  35 

29 

Thur 

unset1led.\ 

6  36 

5  24 

n 

8   42 

10  21 

30 

Frid 

(J  highest.                         1 

6  37 

5  23 

9   31 

11     7 

|31 

Satur 

U  6%                 weuther.l 

6  38 

5  22 

2S 

10   14 

11   54 

^llth  Month.]            NOVEMBER,    1863.               [30  Days.,] 

MOON'S    PHASES. 

15.  With  what  velocity  will  an  iron 

n       u        sr 

ball   begin   to  descend,   if  raised  3,000 

D>     Hi       M. 

Last  Quarter      3     9  28  mo. 

miles  above  the  earth's  iurface  ? 

New  Moon       11     2  36  mo- 

17.  How  high  must  a  ball  be  raised,  | 

First  Quarter    17  11  29  eve. 

to  lose  half  its  weight? 

Full  Moon         25     3  29  mo. 

1 

D. 

~D1 

Sun 

Sun„  .jMoon|H.Tid«i 

of 

of 

Various  Phenomena. 

rises 

.     ^w'   •        .     SAVAN-I 

sets;|ojri&;«ts  nah.  ' 

M 

W 

H.M. 

H.M.'g^jH.     M.H.      M. 

1 

s. 

All  Saint's  day. 

6l^ 

5  21       jll     5  eve. 45! 

2 

Mon 

All  Souls'  day. 

6  40 

5  20 

11  57;   1    38i 

3 

Tues 

Fair  and  Cool. 

6  40 

5  20 

morn.    2    38' 

4 

Wed 

?  brightest  in  the  morn. 

6  41 

5  19 

0  43    3    5^ 

5 

Thur 

Gunpowder  plot,  1605. 

6  42 

5  18TT5 

1   37 

5      6, 

6 

Frid 

Leonard.               Cloudy 

6  43 

5  17 

2  36 

6    15 

7 

Satur 

Bat.  Belmont,  1861. 

6  44 

5  16 

./^. 

:i  34 

7    11 

8 

S. 

Transit  of  ^,  1848. 

6  45 

5  15 

4  31 

7    54 

9 

Mon 

and  Damp. 

6  46 

5  14 

in. 

5  21 

8    33 

10 

Tues 

Milton  died,  1674. 

6  46 

5  14 

6     2 

9      8 

11 

Wed 

^  Eclipsed,  invisible. 

6  47 

5  13 

t 

sets. 

9     42; 

12 

Thur 

Frosty  and 

6  48 

5  12 

6.  31 

10    13, 

13 

Frid 

Moon  lowest.          Fair. 

6  49 

5  11 

^ 

7  39,10    4511 

14 

Satur 

Chas.  Carroll  d.,  1832. 

6  49 

5  11 

8  36 

11    18i 

15 

-S. 

Witherspoon  d.,  1794. 

6  50 

5  10 

A»» 

9  51 

11    52| 

16 

Mon 

Tea  dest'd  Boston,  1773 

6  51 

5     9 

10  59jmorn.  II 

17 

Tues 

7  Stars  sou.  Ilh49m. 

6  52 

5    8 

morn. 

0    311 

18 

Wed 

Windy^  and  a  Cold, 

6  52 

5    8 

K 

0     8 

1    15| 

19 

Thur 

7  Stars  sou.  llh  41m. 

6  53 

5    7 

1   10 

2      7| 

20 

Frid 

Rain  may  he  expected. 

6  54 

5    6 

T 

2  21 

3        9; 

|21 

Satur 

Sun  enters  t 

6  54 

5     6 

3  36 

4    25| 

22 

S. 

Fair,  aniG  55 

5     5 

4  48 

5    35 

123 

Mon 

Bomb.  Ft.  Pickens,  '61.|6  56 

5     4 

« 

5  35 

6    42 

24 

Tues 

Cold  Wi7ids.\6  56 

5     4 

6  25 

7    38 

|25 

Wed 

Moon  Eclipsed,  visible.  6  57 

5     3 

n 

rises. 

8    27 

!26 

Thur 

Q.  Isabella  died,  1504.  ;6  58 

5    2 

6  10|  9    191 

7  010      9! 

!27 

Frid 

Moon  highest.                  J6  58 

5     2 

25 

28 

Satur 

Cloudy  Wea.ther.i6  59 

5     1 

7  66;10    57 

29 

S 

Advent  Sunday.                6  59 

5    1 

8  43 

11    4a 

30 

■i 

Mon 

St.  Andrew's  Day.     *     7    0 

5    0 

a 

9  39 

eve.29| 
^^^^  1 

12th  Month.]             DECEMBER 

,  1863.            [31  Days.  ^ 

MOON'S    PHASES. 

1 

18.  If  <he  velocity  of  a  stream  of  water 

D.     II.      M. 

Last  Quarter      3     3  53  mo. 
New  ivfoon       10     2  43  eve. 

spoutinjr  through  the  bulk  head  of  a  mill 
be  16  feet  per  second,  what  head  of  water 

First  Quarter   17  10  39  mo. 

16  there? 

Full  Moon        24    9     0  eve- 

D 

D. 

Sun 

Sun,».,|Moon,ii  '^'id«j| 

of 

of 

Various   Phenomena. 

rises 

sets 

§  ^'ri.&sts 

SAVAN- 
NAH. 

M 

~1 

W 

H.M. 

H.M. 

^t 

H.     M. 

H.      M. 

Tues 

Days  1 0  hours  long. 

7 

0 

5    0 

10  ^5 

1     18 

2 

Wed 

7  Stars  souths  lOh  50m. 

7 

1 

4  59 

W 

11   21 

2      8 

3 

Thur 

Fair  and  Frosty. 

7 

1 

4  59 

morn. 

3      i 

4 

Frid 

Sun  last,  clock  9ra  19s. 

7 

2 

4  58 

^ 

0  15 

4    12 

1     -5 

Satur 

Rainy  and  Cool. 

7 

2 

4  58 

1  25 

5    18 

1    ^ 

S. 

Van  Buren  born,  1782. 

7 

2 

4  58 

^l 

2  35 

6    24 

7 

Mon 

Windy  and, 

7 

3 

4  57 

3  48 

7    20^ 

8 

Tues 

7  Stars  souths  lOh  26m. 

7 

3 

4  57 

t 

4  59 

8      3 

9 

Wed 

unpleasant  Weattier. 

7 

3 

4  57 

5  58 

8    43 

10 

Thur 

Moon  lowest. 

1 

3 

4  57 

75* 

sets. 

9   21 

11 

Frid 

Gt.Fire  Charleston, '61. 

7 

4 

4  56 

5  56 

9   56 

12 

Satur 

Cold  enough 

7 

4 

4  56 

6  40 

10    31 

13 

S. 

Bat.  Valley  Mount.,  1861 

7 

4 

4  56 

7  28 

11      5 

14 

Mon 

Washington  died,  1799. 

7 

4 

4  56 

8  45 

11    40 

15 

Tues 

for  Ice. 

7 

4 

4  56 

X 

9  40 

morn. 

16 

Wed 

Gt.  Fire  N.  York,  1835. 

7 

5 

4  55 

10  53 

0    17 

17 

Thur 

Rainy  and  unpleasant 

7 

5 

4  55 

op 

morn. 

1      0| 

18 

Frid 

Sun  fast,  clock  2m  51s. 

7 

5 

4  55 

0     2 

1    50 

19 

Satur 

Weather. 

7 

5 

4  55 

1   12 

2    59 

20 

S. 

S.  Carolina  seced.  '60. 

7 

5 

4  55 

b< 

2  21 

4    25| 

21 

Mon 

Sunent.V5'  Shortest  day. 

7 

5 

4  55 

3  42 

5    35 

1  22 

Tues 

Land,  of  Pilgrims,  1620. 

7 

5 

4  55 

n 

4  56 

6    42; 

1  23 

Wed 

Sir  I.  Newton  born,1642 

7 

5 

4  55 

6     2 

7    38 

24 

Thur 

SuQ  &  clock  agree. 

7 

5 

4  55 

rises. 

8    27 

25 

frid 

Christmas  Day.  Clear 

7 

5 

4  55 

25 

5  58 

9    10 

26 

Satur 

D  highest.  St.  Stephen. 

7 

5 

4  55 

6  48 

10      9 

27 

S. 

St.  John  Evang.        and 

7 

4 

4  56 

a 

7  37 

10    57 

28 

Mon 

Innocents,   cold,  weather 

7 

4 

4  56 

8  26 

11    42^ 

29 

Tues 

The  Java  taken,  1812.  |7 

4 

4  56 

^ 

9  13 

eve.26|  '• 

30 

Wed 

7  Stars  souths  9k  Om.       7 

4 

4  56 

10  14 

1    19 

31 

Thur 

for  this  Climate.   7 

4 

4  56 

-   11    12 

2    10 

OONSTITUTIOIN 

OF  TnE 

CONFEDERATE  STATES  OF  AMEEICA. 


We,  the  people  of  the  Conl'ederatc  Stales,  eacli  State  acthig  in  its 
sovereign  and  independent  character,  in  order  to  form  a  permanent 
federal  govermnent,  establish  justice,  insure  domestic  tranquility, 
and  secure  the  blessings  of  liberty  to  ourselves  and  our  posterity — 
invoking  the  favor  and  guidance  of  Almighty  God — do  ordain  and 
establish  this  Constitution  for  the  Confederate  States  of  America. 

A  R  T  I  C  L  E  I. 

SECTION  I. 

All  legislative  powers  herein  delegated  ehall  be  vested  in  a  Con- 
gress of  the  Confederate  States,  vrhich  shall  consist  of  a  Senate  and 
House  of  Representatives. 

8ECTI0N  II. 

1.  The  House  of  Representatives  shall  be  composed  of  members 
chosen  every  second  year,  by  the  people  of  the  several  States ;  and 
the  elections  in  each  State  shall  be  citizens  of  the  Confederate 
States,  and  have  the  (pialificatious  requisite  for  electors  of  the  most 
numerous  branch  of  the  State  Legislature ;  but  no  person  of  foreign 
birth,  not  a  citizen  of  the  Confederate  States,  shall  be  allowed  to 
vote  for  any  officer,  civil  or  political,  State  or  Federal. 

2.  No  person  shall  be  a  Representative  who  shall  not  have  at- 
tained the  age  of  twenty-five  years,  and  be  a  citizen  of  the  Confed- 
erate States,  and  who  shall  not,  when  elected,  be  an  inhabitant  of 
that  State  in  which  he  shall  be  chosen. 

3.  Representatives  and  Direct  Taxes  shall  be  apportioned  among 
the  several  States,  which  may  be  included  within  this  Confederacy, 
according  to  their  respective  numbers,  which  shall  be  determined 
by  adding  to  the  whole  number  of  free  persons,  including  those 
bound  to  service  for  a  term  of  years,  and  including  Indians  not 
taxed  three-fifths  of  all  slaves.  The  actual  eimmcration  shall  be 
made  within  three  y^ars  after  tlie  first  meeting  of  the  Congress  of 
Confederate  States,  and  within  every  subsequent  term  of  ten  years, 
in  such  manner  as  they  shall,  by  law,  direct.  The  number  of  Re- 
presentatives shall  not  exceed  one  for  every  fifty  thousand,  but 
each  State  shall  have  at  least  one  Representative ;  and  until  such 
enumeration  shall  be  made,  the  State  of  South  Carolinq,  shall  be 


IS  THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES  ALMANAC, 

entitled  to  choose  six — the  State  of  Georgia,  ten — the  Stat«  of  Al- 
abama, nine — the  State  of  Florid^,  two — the  State  of  Mississippi, 
seven — the  State  of  Louisiana,  six — and  the  State  of  Texas,  six. 

4.  When  vacancies  happen  in  the  representation  from  any  State 
the  Executive  authority  thereof  shall  issue  writs  of  election  to  fill 
such  vacancies. 

5.  The  House  of  Representatives  shall  choose  their  Speaker  and 
other  officers  ;  and  shall  have  the  sole  power  of  impeachment ; 
except  that  any  judicial  or  other  federal  officers  resident  and  acting 
solely  within  the  limits  of  any  State,  may  be  impeached  by  a  vote 
of  two-thirds  of  both  branches  of  the  Legislature  thereof. 

SECllON  111, 

J .  The  Senate  of  the  Confederate  States  shall  be  composed  oi" 
two  Senators  from  each  State,  chosen  for  six  years  by  the  Legisla- 
ture thereof,  at  the  regular  session  next  immediately  preceding  the 
commencement  of  the  term  of  service ;  and  each  Senator  shall 
liave  one  vote. 

2.  Immediately  after  they  shall  be  assembled,  in  consequence  of 
the  first  election,  they  shall  be  divided  as  equally  as  possible  intx) 
three  classes.  The  seats  of  the  Senators  of  the  first  class  shall  bo 
vacated  at  the  expiration  of  the  second  year  ;  of  the  second  class 
at  the  expiration  of  the  fourth  year;  and  of  the  third  class,  at  the 
expiration  of  the  sixth  year  ;  so  that  one-third  may  be  chosen  ev- 
ery second  year;  and  if  vacancies  happen  by  resignation,  or  oth- 
erwise, during  the  recess  of  the  Legislature  of  any  State,  the  Ex- 
ecutive thereof  may  make  temporary  appointments  until  the  next 
meeting  of  tlie  Legislature,  which  shall  then  fill  such  vacancies. 

3.  No  person  shall  be  a  Senator  who  shall  not  have  attained  the 
age  of  thirty  years,  and  be  a  citizen  of  the  Confederate  States^; 
and  who  shall  not  when  elected,  be  an  inhabitant  of  the  State  for 
which  he  shall  be  chosen. 

4.  The  Vice  President  of  the  Confederate  States  shall  be  Presi- 
dent of  the  Senate,  but  skall  have  no  vote,  unless  they  shall  be 
equally  divided. 

0.  The  Senate  shall  choose  their  other  officers ;  and  also  a  Pre- 
sident ^:>?-o  Umiwre  in  the  absence  of  the  Vice  President,  or  when 
he  shall^exeroise  the  office  of  President  of  the  Confederate  States. 

6.  The  Senate  shall  have  the  sole  pov/er  to  try  all  impeachments. 
When  sitting  for  that  purpose,  they  shall  be  on  oath  or  affirmation. 
When  the  President  of  the  Confederate  States  is  tried,  the  Chief 
Justice  shall  preside ;  and  no  person  shall  be  convicted  without 
the  concurrence  of  two  thirds  of  the  members  present. 

7.  Judgment  in  cases  of  impeachment  shall  not  extend  further 
than  to  removal  from  office,  and  disqualification  to  hold  and  enjoy 
any  office  of  honor  or  profit,  under  the  Confederate  States ;  but 
the  party  convicted  shall,  nevertheless,  be  liable  and  subject  to  in-* 
dictment,  trial,  judgment,  and  punishment  according  to  law. 


AlfD  REPOSITOPwY  OF  USEFUL  KNOWLEDGU.        lO 

BECTIOX    IV. 

1.  The  time,  place,  and  manner  of  lioldinii;  elections  for  Sena- 
tors and  Representatives  shall  l)e  prescribed  in  each  State  by  the. 
Legislature  thereof,  subject  to  the  provisions  of  this  Constitution: 
but  the  Congress  may,  at  any  time,  l)y  law,  make  or  alter  such 
regulations,  except  as  to  the  times  and  places  of  choosing  Sen- 
ators. 

2.  The  Congress  shall  assemble  at  least  once  in  every  year,  and 
such  meeting  shall  be  on  the  tirst  Monday  in  December,  unless 
they  shall,  bylaw,  appoint  a  dittVrent  day. 

SECTION    V. 

L  Each  House  shall  be  the  judge  of  the  elections,  returns,  and 
qualifications  of  its  own  members,  and  a  majority  of  each  shall 
constitute  a  quorum  to  do  business  ;  but  a  smaller  number  may 
adjourn  from  day  to  day,  and  may  be  authorized  to  compel  the 
attendance  of  absent  inembers,  in  sucli  manner,  and  under  such 
penalties  as  each  House  may  provide. 

2.  Each  House  may  determine  the  rule  of  its  proceedings,  pun- 
ish its  members  for  disorderly  behavior,  and  with  tlic  concurrence 
of  two-thirds  of  the  whole  number,  expel  a  member. 

3.  Each  House  shall  keep  a  Journal  of  it5  proceedings,  and 
from  time  to  time  publish  the  same,  excepting  such  parts  as  may, 
in  their  judgment,  require  secrecy;  and  the  yeas  and  nays  of  the 
member's  of  either  House,  on  any  question,  shall,  at  the  desire  of 
one-fifth  of  those  present,  be  entered  on  the  journal. 

4.'  Neither  House,  during  the  session  of  Congress,  shall,  without 
the  consent  of  the  other,  adjourn  for  more  than  three  days,  nor  to 
any  other  place  than  that  in  which  the  two  Houses  shall  bo 
sitting. 

SECTION'   VI. 

1.  The  Senators  and  Representatives  shall  receive  a  compensa- 
tion for  their  services,  to  be  ascertained  by  law,  and  paid  out  of 
the  Treasury  of  the  Confederate  States.  They  shall,  in  all  cases, 
except  treason,  and  breach  of  the  peace,  be  privileged  from  arrest 
during  their  attendance  at  the  session  of  their  respective  Houses, 
and  in  going  to  and  returning  from  the  same ;  and  for  any  speech, 
or  debate  in  either  House,  they  shall  not  be  questioned  in  any  other 
place. 

2.  No  Senator  or  Representative  shall,  during  the  time  for  which 
he  Avas  elected,  be  appointed  to  any  civil  oflice  under  the  authority 
of  the  Confederate  States,  which  shall  have  been  created,  or  the 
emoluments  whereof  shall  have  been  increased  during  such  time  ; 
and  no  person  holding  any  office  under  the  Confederate  States  shall 
bo  a  member  of  either  House  during  his  continuance  in  office.  But 


20  THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES  ALMANAC, 

Congress  mny,  by  law,  grant  to  the  i)rincipal  ofiicer  in  each  of  the 
Executive  Departments  a  seat  npon  the  floor  of  cither  House,  with 
the  privilege  of  discnssiiig  any  mensiires  appertaining  to  his  de- 
])avtment. 

SKCTIO^'    Vil. 

1.  All  bills  ibr  raising  revenne  shall  originate  iu  tlie  llonse  of 
Kepresentatives ;  but  the  Senate  may  projjose  or  oononr  with 
amendments,  as  on  other  bills. 

2.  Every  bill  which  shall  ha^•c  passed  both'  Houses,  shall,  before 
it  becomes  a  law,  be  presented  to  the  President  of  the  Confederate 
States ;  if  he  approve,  he  shall  sign  it ;  but  if ^  not,  he  shall  return 
i(^  with  his  objections,  to  the  House  in  which  it.  shall  have  origi- 
nated, who  shall  enter  the  objections  at  large  on  their  journals, 
and  proceed  to  reconsider  it.  If,  after  such  reconsideration,  two- 
thirds  of  that  House  shall  agree  to  pass  the  bill,  it  shall  be  sent, 
together  with  the  objections,  to  the  other  House,  by'which  it  shall 
likewise  be  reconsidered ;  and  if  approved  by  two-thirds  of  that 
House,  it  shall  become  a  law.  But  in  all  such  cases,  the  votes  of  botli 
Houses  shall  befdetermined  by  yeas  and  nays,  and  the  persons  voting 
ibr  or  against  tlie  bill  shall  be  entered  on  the  Journal  of  each  House, 
respectively.  If  any  bill  shall  not  be  returned  by  the  President 
v.'ithin  ten  days  (Sundays  excepted)  after  it  sliall  have  been  pre- 
sented to  him,  the  same  sliall  be  a  law  in  like  manner  as  if  be  had 
signed  it,  unless  the  Congress,  shall  by  their  adjournment,  prevent 
its  return ;  in  which  case  it  shall  not  be  a  law.  The  President 
may  approve  any  appropriation,  and  disapprove  any  other  appro- 
priation in  the  same  bill.  In  such  case,  he  shall,  in  signing  the 
bill,  designate  the  appropriations  disapproved  ;  and  shall  return  a 
copy  of  such  appropriations,  with  his  objections,  to  the  House  in 
which  the  bill  sliall  have  originated,  and  the  same  proceedings  shall 
then  be  had  as  in  case  of  other  bills  disapproved  by  the  Pre- 
sident. 

8.  Every  order,  resolution  or  vote,  to  which  the  concurrence  of 
both  Houses  may  be  necessary  (except  on  a  question  of  adjourn- 
ment) shall  be  presented  to  the  President  of  the  Confederate 
States  ;  and  before  the  same  shall  take  effect,  shall  be  approved  by 
him ;  or  being  disapproved  by  him  may  be  repassed  by  two-thirds 
of  both  Houses,  according  to  the  rules  and  limitations  prescribed 
in  case  of  a  bill. 

SECTION  vnr. 

The  Congress  shall  have  power — 

1.  To  lay  and  collect  taxes,  duties,  imposts  aiid  excises,  for  re v- 
nue  necessary  to  pay  the  debts,  provide  for  the  common  defence, 
and  carry  on  the  Government  of  the  Confederate  States;  but  no 
bounties  shall  be  granted  from  the  treasury ;  nor  shall  any  duties, 


AKD  REPOSITORY  OF  USEFUL  KNOWLEDGE.        21 

or  taxes  on  importations  from  foreign  nations  be  laid  to  promote 
or  foster  any  branch  of  industry ;  and  all  duties,  imposts  and  ex- 
cises shall  be  uniform  throughout  the  Confederate  States : 

2.  To  borrow  money  on  the  credit  of  the  Confederate  States : 

3.  To  regulate  commerce  with  foreign  nations,  and  among  the 
several  States,  and  with  the  Indian  tribes ;  but  neither  this,  nor 
any  other  clause  contained  in  the  Constitution  shall  ever  be  con- 
strued to  delegate  the  power  to  Congress  to  appropriate  money  for 
any  internal  improvement  intended  to  facilitate  commerce,  except 
for  the  purpose  of  furnishing  lights,  beacons  and  buoys,  and  other 
aids  to  navigation  upon  the  coast,  and  the  improvement  of  har- 
bors-, and  the  removing  of  obstructions  in  river  Yiavigation,  in 
all  which  cases,  such  duties  shall  be  laid  on  the  navigation  facilita- 
ted thereby,  as  may  be  necessary  to  pay  the  costs  and  expenses 
thereof: 

4.  To  establish  uniform  laws  of  naturalization,  and  uniform  laws 
on  the  subject  of  bankruptcies,  throughout  the  Confederate  States  ; 
but  no  law  of  Congress  shall  discharge  any  debt  contracted  before 
the  passage  of  the  same  : 

5.  To  coin  money,  regulate  the  value  thereof,  and  of  foreign 
coin,  and  fix  the  standard  of  weights  and  measures : 

6.  To  provide  for  the  punishment  of  counterfeiting  the  securities 
and  current  coin  of  the  Confederate  States : 

7.  To  establish  post  offices  and  post  routes ;  but  the  expenses  of 
the  Postoffice  Department,  after  the  first  day  of  March,  in  the  year 
of  our  Lord,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-three,  shall  be  paid  out  of 
its  own  revenues : 

8.  To  promote  the  progress  of  science  and  useful  arts,  by  secur- 
ing for  limited  times  to  authors  and  inventors  the  exclusive  right 
to  their  respective  writings  and  discoveries  : 

9.  To  constitute  tribunals  inferior  to  the  Supreme  Court : 

10.  To  define  and  punish  piracies  and  felonies  committed  on  the 
high  seas,  and  offences  against  the  law  of  nations  : 

11.  To  declare  war,  grant  letters  of  marque  and  reprisal,  and 
make  rules  concerning  captures  on  land  and  water  : 

12.  To  raise  and  support  armies  ;  but  no  appropriation  of  money 
to  that  use  shall  be  for  a  longer  term  than  two  years  : 

13.  To  provide  and  maintain  a  navy  : 

14.  To  make  rules  for  government  and  the  regulation  of  the  land 
and  naval  forces : 

15.  To  provide  for  calling  forth  the  militia  to  execute  the  laws 
of  the  Confederate  States,  suppress  insurrections  and  repel  inva- 
sions : 

16.  To  provide  for  organizing,  arming  and  disciplining  the  mili- 
tia, and  for  governing  such  part  of  them  as  may  be  employed  in 
the  service  of  the  Confederate  States ;  reserving  to  the  States, 
respectively,  the  appointment  of  the  ofl&cers,  and  the  authority  of 


22  THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES  ALMANAC, 

training  the  militia  according  to  the  discipline  prescribed  by  Con- 
gress : 

17.  To  exercise  exclusive  legislation,  in  all  cases  whatsoever, 
over  such  district  (not  exceeding  ten  miles  square)  as  may,  bj 
cession  of  one  or  more  States,  and  tlie  acceptance. of  Congress,  be- 
come th^  seat  of  the  Government  of  the  Confederate  States  ;  and 
to  exercise  like  authority  over  all  the  places  purchased  by  the  con- 
sent of  the  legislature  of  the  State  in  which  the  same  shall  be,  for 
the  erection  of  forts,  magazines,  arsenals,  dockyards,  and  other 
needful  buildings ;  and 

18.  To  make  all  laws  which  shall  be  necessary  and  proper  for 
carrying  into  execution  the  foregoing  powers,  and  all  other  powers 
vested  by  this  Constitution  in  the  Government  of  the  Confederalre 
States,  or  in  any  department  or  office  thereof. 

SECTION  IX. 

1.  The  importation  of  negroes  of  the  African  race,  from  any  for- 
eign country,  other  than  the  slaveholding  States  or  Territories  of 
the  United  States  of  America,  is  hereby  forbidden ;  and  Congress 
is  required  to  pass  such  laws  as  shall  effectually  prevent  the 
same : 

2.  Congress  shall  also  have  power  to  prohibit  the  introduction 
of  slaves  from  any  State  not  a  member  of,  or  Territory  not  belong- 
ing to,  this  Confederacy. 

3.  The  privilege  of  the  writ  of  hrbeas  corpus  shall  not  be  sus- 
pended, unless  when,  in  cases  of  rebellion,  or  invasion,  the  public 
safety  may  require  it. 

4.  'No  bill  of  attainder,  or  ex  post  facto  law,  or  law  denying  or 
impairing  the  right  of  property  in  negro  slaves,  shall  be  passed. 

5.  No  capitation  or  other  direct  tax  shall  be  laid,  unless  in  pro- 
portion to  the  census  or  enumeration  hereinbefore  directed  to  be 
taken. 

6.  No  tax  or  duty  shall  be  laid  on  articles  exported  from  any 
State,  except  by  a  vote  of  two-thirds  of  both  Houses. 

7.  No  preference  shall  be  given  by  any  regulation  of  commerce 
or  revenue  to  the  ports  of  one  State  over  those  of  another. 

8.  No  money  shall  be  drawn  from  the  Treasury,  but  in  conse- 
quence of  appropriations  made  by  law,  and  a  regular  statement 
and  account  of  the  receipts  and  expenditures  of  all  public  money 
shall  be  published  from  time  to  time. 

9.  Congress  shall  appropriate  no  money  from  the  Treasury,  ex- 
cept by  a  vote  of  two-thirds  of  both  houses,  taken  by  yeas  and 
nays,  unless  it  be  asked  and  estimated  for  by  some  one  of  the  heads 
of  the  Department,  and  submitted  to  Congress  by  the  President; 
or  for  the  purpose  of  paying  its  own  expenses  and  contingencies  ; 
or  for  the  payment  of  claims  against  the  Confederate  States,  the 
justice  of  which  shall  have  been  judicially  declared  by  a  tribunal  for 


AND  KEPOSITORY  OF  USEFUL  KNOWLEDGE.        23 

the  investigation  of  claims  against  the  Government,  vrhich  it  i«i 
hereby  made  the  duty  of  Congress  to  establish. 

10.  All  bills  appropriating  money  shall  specify  in  Federal  cur- 
rency the  exact  amount  of  each  appropriation,  and  the  purposes  for 
which  it  is  made;  and  Congress  shall  grant  no  extra  compensation 
to  any  public  contractor,  otficer,  agent  or  servant,  after  such  con- 
tract shall  have  been  made,  or  such  service  rendered. 

11.  No  title  of  nobility  shall  be  granted  by  the  Confederate 
States ;  and  no  person  holding  any  office  of  profit  or  trust  under 
them,  shall,  without  the  consent  of  the  Congress,  accept  of  any 
present,  emoluments,  office,  or  titles  of  any  kind  whatever,  from 
any  king,  prince,  or  iforeign  State. 

12.  Congress  shall  make  no  law  respecting  an  establishment  of 
religion,  or  prohibiting  the  free  exercise  thereof;  or  abridging  the 
freedom  of  speech  or  of  the  press;  or  the  right  of  the  people 
peaceably  to  assemble  and  petition  the  Government  for  a  redress 
of  grievances. 

13.  A  well  regulated  militia  being  necessary  to  the  security  of  a 
free  State,  the  right  of  the  people  to  keep  and  bear  arms  shall  not 
be  infringed. 

14.  No  soldier  shall,  in  time  of  peace,  be  quartered  in  any  house 
without  the  consent  of  the  owner;  nor  in  time  of  war,  but  lu  a 
manner  to  be  prescribed  by  law, 

15.  The  right  of  the  people  to  be  secure  in  their  persons,  houses, 
papers,  and  eftects,  against  unreasonable  searches  and  seizures, 
shall  not  be  violated ;  and  no  warrant  shall  issue  but  upon  proba- 
ble cause,  supported  by  oath  or  affirmation,  and  particularly  de- 
scribing the  place  to  be  searched,  and  the  person  cr  things  to  be 
seized. 

16.  No  person  shall  be  held  to  answer  for  a  capital  or  otherwise 
infamous  crime,  unless  on  a  presentment  or  indictment  of  a  grand 
Jury,  except  in  cases  arising  in  the  land  or  naval  forces,  or  in  the 
militia,  when  in  actual  service,  in  time  of  war  or  public  danger: 
nor  shall  any  person  be  subject  for  the  same  olfenco  to  be  twice 
put  in  jeopardy  of  life  or  limb  ;  nor  be  compelled,  in  any  criminal 
case,  to  be  a  witness  against  himself;  nor  be  deprived  of  life, 
liberty  or  property,  without  due  process  of  law  ;  nor  shall  privata 
property  be  taken  for  public  use,  without  just  compensation. 

17.  In  .sll  criminal  prosecutions  the  accused  shall  enjoy  the 
right  to  a  speedy  and  public  trial,  by  an  impartial  jury  of  the  State 
and  district  wherein  the  crime  shall  have  been  committed,  which 
district  shall  have  been  previously  ascertained  by  law,  and  to  be 
informed  of  the  nature  and  cause  of  the  accusation ;  to  be  con- 
fronted with  the  witnesses  against  him ;  to  have  compulsory  pro- 
cess for  obtaining  witnesses  in  his  favor ;  and  to  have  the  assist- 
ance of  counsel  for  his  defence. 

18.  In  suits  at  common  law  where  the  value  in  controversy 
shall  exceed  twenty  dollars,  the  right  of  trial  by  jury  shall  be  pre- 


24  THE  CONFEDEEATE  STATES  ALMAKAC, 

served  ;  and  no  fact  so  tried  by  a  jury  shall  be  otherwise  re-exam- 
ined in  any  court  of  the  Confederacy,  than  according  to  the  rules 
of  the  common  law. 

19.  Excessive  bail  shall  not  be  required,  nor  excessive  fines  be 
imposed,  nor  cri>el  and  unjust  punishments  be  inflicted. 

20.  Every  law,  or  resolution  having  the  force  of  law,  shall  relate 
to  but  one  subjer.t,  and  that  shall  be  expressed  in  the  title. 

SECTION    X. 

1.  No  State  shall  enter  into  any  treaty,  alliance,  or  confedera- 
tion: grant  letters  of  marque  and  reprisal;  coin  money,  make 
anything  but  gold  and  silver  coin  a  tender  in  payment  of  debts  ; 
pass  any  bill  of  attainder,  or  ex  post  jacto  law^  or  law  impairing 
the  obligation  of  contracts  ;  or  grant  any  title  of  nobility. 

2.  No  state  shall,  without  the  consent  of  the  Congress,  lay  any 
imposts,  or  duties  on  imposts  or  exports,  except  what  may  be  ab- 
solutely necessary  for  executing  its  inspection  laws ;  and  the  net 
produce  of  all  duties  and  imposts,  laid  by  any  State  on  imports  or 
exports,  shall  be  for  the  use  of  the  treasury  of  the  Confederate 
States ;  nnd  all  such  laws  shall  be  subject  to  the  revision  and  con- 
trol of  (\ ingress. 

3.  JSTo  state  shall,  without  the  consent  of  Congress  lay  any  duty 
of  tonnage,  except  on  sea-going  vessels,  for  the  improvement  of  its 
rivers  and  harbors  navigated  by  the  said  vessels ;  but  such  duties 
shall  not  conflict  with  any  treaties  of  the  Confederate  States  with 
foreign  nations ;  and  any  surplus  or  revenue  thus  derived,  shall, 
after  making  such  improvements,  be  paid  into  the  common  treasu- 
ry ;  nor  shall  any  State  keep  troops  or  ships  of  Avar  in  time  of 
peace,  enter  into  any  agreement  or  compact  with  another  State,  or 
with  a  foreign  power,  or  engage  in  war,  unless  actually  invaded, 
or  in  such  imminent  danger  as  will  not  admit  of  delay.  But  when 
any  river  divides  or  flows  through  two  or  more  States,  they  may 
enter  into  compacts  with  each  other  to  improve  the  navigation 
thereof. 

ARICLE  II. 

SECTION  I. 

1.  The  executive  power  shall  be  vested  in  a  President  of  the 
Confederate  States  of  America.  He  and  the  Vice-President  shall 
hold  their  oflSces  for  the  term  of  six  years  ;  but  the  President  shall 
not  be  re-eligible.  The  President  and  Vice-President  shall  be 
elected  as  follows : 

2.  Each  State  shall  appoint,  in  such  manner  as  the  Legislature 
thereof  may  direct,  a  number  of  electors  equal  to  the  whole  num- 
ber of  Senators  and  Representatives  to  which  the  State  may  be 
entitled  in  the   Congress ;  but  no  Senator  or  Representative,  or 


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person  holding  an  office  of  trust  or  profit  under  the  Confederate 
States  shall  be  appointed  an  elector. 

3.  The  electors  shell  meet  in  their  respective  States  and  vote  fey- 
ballot  for  President  and  Vice-Prefeident,  one  of  whom,  at  least, 
shall  not  be  an  inhabitant  of  the  same  State  with  themselves ; 
they  shall  name  in  their  ballots  the  persons  voted  for  as  President, 
and  in  distinct  ballots  the  person  voted  for  as  Vice-President,  and 
they  shall  make  distinct  lists  of  all  persons  voted  for  as  President, 
and  of  all  persons  voted  for  as  Vice-President,  and  of  the  number 
of  votes  for  each,  which  list  they  shall  sign  and  certify,  and  trans- 
mit, sealed,  to  the  government  of  the  Confederate  States,  directed 
to  the  President  of  the  Senate ;  the  President  of  the  Senate  shall, 
in  the  presence  of  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives,  open 
all  the  certificates,  and  the  vote  shall  then  be  counted  ;  the  per-  ^ 
son  having  the  greatest  number  of  votes  for  President  shall  be 
the  President,  if  such  number  be  a  majority  of  the  whole  number 
of  electors  appointed :  and  if  no  person  have  such  majority,  then 
from  the  persons  having  the  highest  numbers,  not  exceeding  three, 
on  the  list  of  those  voted  for  as  President,  the  House  of  Represen- 
tatives shall  choose  immediately,  by  ballot,  the  President.  But  in 
choosing  the  President,  the  vote  shajl  be  taken  by  States,  the 
representation  from  eacl!  State  having  one  vote;  a  quorum  for 
this  purpose  shall  consist  of  a  member  or  members  from  two-thirds 
of  the  States,  and  a  majority  of  all  the  States  shall  be  necessary  to 
a  choice.  And  if  the  House  of  Representatives  shall  not  choose  a 
President,  whenever  the  right  of  choice  shall  devolve  upon  them, 
before  the  fourth  day  of  Marcli  next  following,  then  the  Vice-Presi- 
dent shall  act  as  President,  as  in  case  of  the  death  or  other  Con- 
stitutional disability  of  the  President. 

4.  The  person  having  the  greatest  number  of  votes  as  Vice- 
President  shall  be  the  Vice-President,  if  such  number  be  a  majori- 
ty of  the  whole  number  of  electors  appointed ,  and  if  no  person 
have  a  majority,  then  from  the  two  highest  numbers  on  the  list  of 
the  Senate  shall  choose  the  Vice-President ;  a  quorum  for  the 
purpose  shall  consist  of  two-thirds  of  the  whole  number  of  Sena- 
tors, and  a  majority  of  the  whole  number  shall  be  necessary  to  a 
choice. 

5.  No  person  constitutionally  ineligible  to  the  office  of  Presi- 
dent shall  be  eligible  to  that  of  Vice-President  of  the  Confederate 
States. 

6.  The  Congress  may  determine  the  time  of  choosing  the  elec- 
tors, and  the  day  on  which  they  shall  give  their  votes ;  which 
day  shall  be  the  same  throughout  the  Confederate  States. 

7.  No  person  except  a  natural  born  citizen  of  the  Confederate 
States,  or  a  citizen  thereof,  at  the  time  of  the  adoption  of  the  Con- 
stitution, or  a  citizen  thereof  born  in  the  United  States  prior  to 
the  20th  of  December,  1860,  shall  be  eligible  to  the  office  of  Pre- 
sident;  neither  shall  any  person  be  eligible  to  that  office  who  shall 


26  THE  OONTEDERATE  STATES  ALMANAC, 

not  have  attained  the  age  of  thirty -five  years,  and  been  fourteen, 
years  a  resident  within  the  limits  of  the  Confederate  States,  as 
they  may  exist  at  the  time  of  his  election. 

8.  In  case  of  the  removal  of  the  President  from  office,  or  of  his 
death,  resignation,  or  inability  to  discharge  the  powers  and  duties 
of  the  said  office,  the  same  shall  devolve  on  the  Vice-President ; 
and  the  Congress  may,  by  law,  provide  for  the  case  of  removal, 
death,  resignation  or  inability,  both  of  the  President  and  Vice- 
President,  declaring  what  officer  shall  then  act  as  President,  and 
such  officer  shall  act  accordingly  until  the  disability  be  removed 
or  a  President  shall  be  elected. 

9.  The  President  shall,  at  stated  times,  receive  for  his  services 
a  compensation  which  shall  neither  be  increased  nor  diminished 
during  the  period  for  which  he  shall  have  been  elected :  and  he 
shall  not  receive  within  that  period  any  other  emolument  from  the 
Confederate  States,  or  any  of  them.     . 

10.  Before  he  enters  on  the  execution  of  his  office,  he  shall  take 
the  following  oath  or  affirmation  : 

"I  do  solemnly  swear — or  affirm — that  I  will  faithfully  execute 
the  office  of  President  of  the  Confederate  States,  and  will,  to  the 
best  of  my  ability,  preserve,  protect  and  defend  the  Constitution 
thereof."  . 

SECTION   II. 

1.  The  President  shall  be  Commander-in-Chief  of  the  army  and 
navy  of  the  Confederate  States,  and  of  the  militia  of  the  several 
States,  when  called  into  the  actual  service  of  the  Confederate 
States ;  he  may  require  the  opinion,  in  writing,  of  the  principal 
officer  in  each  of  the  Executive  Departments,  upon  any  subject 
relating  to  the  duties  of  their  respective  offices ;  and  he  shall  have 
power  to  grant  reprieves  and  pardons  for  offences  against  the  Con- 
federate States,  except  in  cases  of  impeachment. 

2.  He  shall  have  power,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of 
the  Senate,  to  make  treaties,  provided  two-thirds  of  the  Senators 
present  concur ,  and  he  shall  nominate,  and  by  and  with  the  ad- 
vice and  consent  of  the  Senate,  shall  appoint  ambassaders,  other 
public  ministers  and  consuls,  Judges  of  the  Supreme  Court,  and  all 
other  officers  of  the  Confederate  States,  whose  ai)pointmcnts  are 
not  herein  otherwise  provided^or,  and  which  shall  be  established 
by  law ;  but  the  Congress  may,  by  law,  vest  the  appointment  of- 
such  inferior  officers,  as  they  think  proper,  in  the  President  alone, 
in  the  Courts  of  Law,  or  in  the  heads  of  Departments. 

is.  The  principal  in  each  of  the  Executive  Departments,  and  all 
persons  connected  with  the  diplomatic  service,  may  be  removed 
from  office  at  the  pleasure  of  the  President.  All  other  civil  offi- 
cers of  the  Executive  Department  may  be  removed  at  any  time  by 
tl^e  President,  or  other  appointing  power,  when  their  services  are 


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unnecessary,  or  for  dishonesty,  incapacity,  inefficiency,  miscon- 
duct, or  neglect  of  duty ;  and  when  so  removed,  the  removal  shall 
be  reported  to  the  Senate,  together  with  the  reasons  therefor. 

4.  The  President  shall  have  power  to  fill  all  vacancies  that  may 
happen  during  the  recess  of  the  Senate,  by  granting  commissions 
which  shall  expire  at  the  end  of  their  next  session ;  but  no  person 
rejected  by  the  Senate  shall  be  re-appointed  to  the  same  office 
during  their  ensuing  recess. 

SECTION   III. 

1.  The  President  shall,  from  time  to  time,  give  to  the  Congress 
information  of  the  state  of  the  Confederacy,  and  recommend  to 
their  consideration  such  measures  as  he  shall  judge  necessary  and 
expedient;  he  may,  on  extraordinary  occasions,  convcLC  both 
Houses,  or  either  of  them  ;  and  in  case  of  disngreement  between 
them,  with  respect  to  the  time  of  adjournment,  he  may  adjourn 
them  to  such  time  as  he  shall  think  proper  ;  he  shall  receive  am- 
bassadors and  other  public  ministers;  he  shall  take  care  that  the 
laws  be  faithfully  executed,  and  shall  commission  all  tlic  officers  of 
the  Confederate  States. 

SECTION    IV. 

1.  The  President,  Vice-President,  and  all  civil  officers  of  the 
Confederate  States,  shall  be  removed  from  office  on  impeachment 
for,  and  conviction  of  treason,  ])ribery,  or  other  higli  crimes  and 
misdemeanors. 

ARTICLE  III. 

SECTION   I. 

1.  The  judicial  power  of  the  Confederate  States  shall  be  vested 
in  one  Superior  Court,  and  in  such  Inferior  Courts  as  the  Congress 
may  from  time  to  time  order  and  establish.  The  judges,  both  of 
the  Superior  and  Inferior  Courts,  shall  hold  their  offices  during 
good  behavior,  and  shall,  at  stated  times,  receive  for  the  services 
a  compensation,  which  shall  not  be  diminished  during  their  con- 
tinuance in  office. 

SECTION   II. 

1.  The  judicial  power  shall  extend  to  all  cases  arie^ing  under  this 
Constitution,  the  laws  of  the  Confederate  States,  and  treaties 
made,  or  which  shall  be  made,  under  their  authority;  to  all  cases 
affecting  ambassadors,  other  public  ministers  and  consuls ;  to  all 
cases  of  admiralty  and  maritime  jurisdiction ;  to  controversies  to 
which  the  Confederate  States  shaU  be  a  party:  to  controversies 
between  two  or  more  States ;    between  a  State  and  citizens  of 


2g  THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES  ALMANAC, 

anotlier  State,  where  the  State  is  plaintiff;  hetween  citizens 
claiming  lands  under  grants  from  different  States  ;  and  between 
the  State  or  the  citizens  thereof,  and  foreign  States,  citizens  or 
subjects;  but  no  State  shall  be  sued  by  a  citizen  or  subject  of  any- 
foreign  State. 

2.  In  all  cases  affecting  ambassadors,  other  public  ministers,  and 
consults,  and  those  in  which  a  State  shall  be  a  party,  the  Supreme 
Court  shall  have  original  jurisdiction.  In  all  other  cases  before- 
mentioned,  the  Supreme  Court  shall  have  appelate  jurisdiction, 
both  as  to  law  and  facts,  with  such  exceptions,  and  under  such 
regulations  as  the  Congress  shall  make. 

3.  The  trial  of  all  crimes,  except  in  cases  of  impeachment,  shall 
be  by  jury,  and  such  trial  shall  be  held  in  the  State  where  the 
said  crime  shall  have  been  committed ;  but  when  not  committed 
within  any  State,  the  trial  shall  be  at  such  place  or  places  as  the 
Congress  may  by  law  have  directed. 

SECTION    HI. 

1.  Treason  agaiiist  the  Confederate  States  shall  consist  only  in 
levying  war  against  them,  or  in  adhering  to  their  enemies,  giving 
them  aid  and  comfort.  No  person  shall  be  convicted  of  treason, 
unless  on  the  testimony  of  two  witnesses  to  tlie  same  overt  act,  or 
on  confession  in  open  court. 

2.  The  Congress  shall  have  power  to  declare  the  punishment  of 
treason,  but  no  attainder  of  treason  shall  work  corruption  of  blood, 
or  forfeiture,  except  during  the  life  of  the  person  attainted. 

ARTICLE    IV. 

SECTION    I. 

1.  Full  faith  and  credit  shall  be  given  in  each  State  to  the  pub- 
lic acts,  records  and  judicial  proceedings  of  every  other  State. 
And  the  Congress  may,  by  general  laws,  prescribe  the  manner  in 
which  the  such  acts,  records  and  proceedings  shall  be  proved,  and 
tl^e  effect  thereof. 

SECTION  II. 

1.  The  citizens  of  each  State  shall  be  entitled  to  all  the  privi- 
leges an4  immunities  of  citizens  in  the  several  States,  and  shall 
have  the  right  of  transit  and  sojourn  in  any  State  of  the  Confede- 
racy, with  their  slaves  and  other  property  ;  and  the  right  of  prp: 
perty  in  said  slaves  shall  not  be  thereby  impaired. 
■  2.  A  person  charged  in  any  State  with  treason,  felony,  or  othcji; 
crime  against  the  laws  of  such  State,  shall,  on  the  demand  of  the 
Executive  authority  of  the  State  from  which  he  fled,  be  delivered 
up  to  be  removed  to  the  State  having  jurisdiction  of  the  crune. 

3.  No  slave,  or  other  person  held  to  service  or  labor,  in  any 


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State  or  Torritdry  of  the  Confederate  States,  under  the  laws  there- 
of, escaping  or  lawfully  carried  into  another,  shall,  in  consequence 
of  any  law  or  regulation  therein,  be  discharged  from  such  service 
or  labor;  but  shall  be  delivered  up  on  claim  of  the  party  to  whom 
such  slave  belongs,  or  to  whom  such  labor  or  service  may  be  due. 

SECTION   III. 

1.  Other  States  may  be  admitted  into  tliis  Confederacy  by  a 
vote  of  two-thirds  of  the  whole  House  of  Representatives,  and  two- 
thirds  of  the  Senate,  the  Senate  voting  by  States;  but  no  new 
State  shall  be  formed  or  erected  within  the  jurisdiction  of  any 
other  State ;  nor  any  State  bo  formed  by  the  junction  of  two  or 
more  States,  or  parts  of  States,  without  the  consent  of  the  Legis- 
latures of  the  States  concerned,  as  well  as  of  the  Congress. 

2.  The  Congress  shall  have  power  to  dispose  of  and  make  all 
needful  rules  and  regulations  concerning  the  property  of  the  Con- 
federate States,  including  the  lands  thereof. 

3.  The  Confederate  States  may  acquire  new  territory  ;  and  Con- 
gress shall  have  power  to  legislate  and  provide  governments  for 
the  inhabitants  of  all  territory  belonging  to  the  Confederate 
States,  lying  without  the  limits  of  the  several  States ;  and  may 
permi  u  them,  at  such  times,  and  in  such  manner,  as  it  may  by  law 
provide,  to  form  States  to  be  admitted  into  the  Confederacy.  In 
all  such  territory,  the  institution  of  negro  slavery,  as  it  now  exists 
in  the  Confederate  States,  shall  be  recognized  and  protected  by 
Congress,  and  by  the  Territorial  Government ;  and  the  inhabitants 
of  the  several  Confederate  States  and  Territories  shall  have  the 
right  to  take  to  such  Territory  any  slaves,  lawfully  held  by  them 
in  any  of  the  States  or  Territories  of  the  Confederate  States. 

4.  The  Confederate  States  shall  guarantee  to  every  State  that  is 
or  hereafter  may  become  a  member  of  this  Confederacy,  a  republi- 
can form  of  government,  and  shall  protect  each  of  them  against 
invasion ;  and  on  application  of  the  Legislature,  (or  of  the 
Executive,  when  the  Legislature  is  in  session,)  against  domestic 
violence. 

ARTICLE  V. 

SECTION    I. 

1.  Upon  the  demand  of  any  three  States,  legally  assembled  in 
their  several  conventions,  the  Congress  shall  summon  a  convention 
of  all  the  States,  to  take  into  consideration  such  amendments  to 
the  Constitution  as  the  said  States  all  concur  in  suggesting  at  the 
time  when  the  said  demandris  made;  and  should  any  of  the  pro- 
posed amendments  to  the  Constitution  be  agreed  on  by  the  said 
convention — voting  by  States — and  the  same  be  ratified  by  the 
Legislatures  of  two-thirds  of  the  several  States,  or'by  conventions 


30  THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES  ALMANAC, 

in  two-tbirdg  thereof — as  the  one  or  the  other  mode  of  ratilicutiou 
may  be  proposed  by  the  general  convention — they  shall  thence- 
forward form  a  part  of  this  Constitntion.  But  no  State  shall, 
without  its  consent,  be  deprived  of  its  equal  representation  in  the 
Senate. 

ARTICLE  YL 

1.  The  Government  established  b^  this  Constitution  is  the  suc- 
cessor of  the  Provisional  Government  of  the  Confederate  States  of 
America,  and  all  the  laws  passed  by  the  latter  shall  continue  in 
force  until  the  same  shall  be  repealed  or  modified;  and  all  the 
officers  appointed  by  the  same  shall  remain  in  office  until  their 
successors  are  appointed  and  qualified,  or  the  offices  abolished. 

2.  All  debts  contracted,  and  engagements  entered  into,  before 
the  adoption  of  this  Constitution,  shall  be  as  valid  against  the  Con- 
federate States  under  this  Constitution  as  under  the  Provisional 
Government. 

3.  This  Constitution,  and  the  laws  of  the  Confederate  States, 
made  in  pursuance  thereof,  and  all  treaties  made,  or  which  shall 
be  made,  under  the  authority  of  the  Confederate  States,  shall  be 
the  supreme  law  of  the  land ;  and  the  judges  in  every  State  shall 
be  bound  thereby,  anything  in  the  Constitution  or  laws  of  any 
State  to  the  contrary  notwithstanding. 

4.  The  Senators  and  Representatives  before  mentioned,  and  the 
members  of  the  several  State  Legislatures,  and  all  executive  and 
judicial  officers,  both  of  the  Confederate  States  and  of  the  several 
States,  shall  be  bound  by  oath  or  affirmation  to  support  this  Con- 
stitution ;  but  no  religious  test  shall  ever  be  required  as  a  qualifi- 
cation to  any  office  of  public  trust  under  the  Confederate  States, 

5.  The  enumeration,  in  the  Constitution^  of  certain  rights  shall 
not  be  construed  to  deny  or  disparage  others  retained  by  the 
people  of  the  several  States. 

6.  The  powers  not  delegated  to  the  Confederate  States  by  the 
Constitution,  nor  prohibited  by  it  to  the  States,  are  reserved  to  the 
States,  respectively,  or  to  the  people  thereof. 

ARTICLE  VII. 

1.  The  ratification  of  the  Convention  of  five  States  shall  be 
sufficient  for  the  establishment  of  this  Constitution  between  tlie 
States  so  ratifying  the  same. 

2.  "When  five  States  shall  have  ratified  this  Constitution  in  the 
manner  before  specified,  the  Congress  under  the  Provisional  Con- 
stitutional shall  prescribe  the  time  for  holding  the  election  of 
President  and  Vice-President,  and  for  the  meeting  of  the  Electoral 
College,  and  for  counting  the  votes,  and  inaugurating  the  Presi- 
dent. They  shall,  also,  prescribe  the  time  for  holding  the  first 
election  of  members  of  Congress  under  this  Constitution,  and  the 


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time  for  assembling  the  same.  Until  the  assembling  of  such  Congre'^s 
the  Congress  under  the  provisional  constitution  shall  continue  to  ex- 
ercise the  legislative  powers  granted  them  ;  not  extending  beyond 
the  tmie  limited  by  the  Constitution  of  the  Provisional  Govern- 
ment. 

Adopted,  unanimously,  March  11,  18G1. 


CONFEDERATE  STATES. 

The  organization  of  the  Confederate  States  Government  com- 
menced under  a  Provisional  (Constitution  on  the  8th  day  of  Feb- 
ruary, 1861,  an(^  expired  on  the  18th  <lav  of  February  ISC'?- 
Jefferson  Davis,  of  Mississippi,  and  Alexander  H.  Stephens  of 
Georgia,  were  oliosen  as  President  and  Vice  President  for  'the 
Provisional  term  of  one  yonr. 

The  first  Presidential  term  oj'  six  years  under  the  permanent 
Constitution  commenced  on  the  22d  of  F'ebniarv,  1862  and  will 
expire  on  tlie  18th  day  of  Feltruary;  1808.  '  ' 

The  First  election  for  President' and  Vice  President  under  the 
]>ermanent  Constitution  took  i)lace  on  tlie  Oth  day  of  N"ovember 
1861,  in  each  State  of  the  Confederacy.  ' 

Tothl  number  of  States  vol ing 2  j^ 

Total  number  of  electoral  votes  cast. ■' V.V.'ioo 

Of  which  num])er  Jefferson  Davis,  of  Mississippi,  received  'for 

tlie  office  of  President  of  the  Confederate  States 100 

Alexander  IL  Stephens,  of  Georgia,  received  for  the  office  of 

Vice-President  of  the  Confederate  States lOO 

The  number  of  electoral  votes  cast  by  the  several  States  is  as 
follows  ; 

Reiyresc^tu'tioh 

in  Congress.  Vote)*. 

Virginia.-... 10  lg 

North  Carolina ^\()  12 

Soutli  Carolina ]  w  g 

<^eorgia '..".!.'.'.'!  10  12 

Florida 9  ^ 

Alabama <»  1 1 

Louisiana f,  g 

^'exas.' V.V .*.'.'.".'.*.;   6  8 

Arkansas 4  0 

Mississippi >j  cj 

Tennessee 1 1  fo 

87  109 


32  THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES  ALMANAC, 

HALARIEvS  OF  THE  EXECUTIVE  OFFICERS. 

President , .  $25,000  per  year' 

Vice  President 6,000  " 

Secretary  of  State ". 6,000  " 

"             Treasury 6,000  " 

War 6,000  " 

'•             Navy 6,000  " 

Attorney-General , 6,000  " 

Postmaster-General 6,000  '' 

The  salary  of  members  of  Congress  shall  be  eight  dollars  per  day 
during  the  session.  Each  member  shall  be  allowed  ten  cents  per 
mile  for  coming  to,  and  ten  cents  for  returning  from,  the  place 
where  Congress  may  assemble  for  each  session.  The  salary  of  the 
President  of  Congress  shall  be  sixteen  dollars  per  day,  and  the 
mileage  as  same  as  members. 

The  President  and  Vice-President  are  elected  for  a  term  of  six 
years,  and  are  not  re-eligible  to  office.  The  Senate  is  composed  of 
two  members  from  each  State  in  the  Confederacy,  chosen  by  the 
Legislatures  of  each  State,  for  six  years.  The  Senate  is  divided 
into  three  classes,  and  one-third  of  their  number  are  chosen  every 
two  years.  The  members  of  the  House  of  Representatives  are 
elected  by  the  people  for  a  term  of  two  years.  Congress  assem- 
])les  once  in  every  year,  commencing  on  the  18th  day  of  February. 

GOVERNMENT  OF  THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES. 

Jefferson  Davis,  of  Mississippi,  President. 
Alexander  H.  Stephens,  of  Georgia,  Vice-President. 

THE  CABINET. 

J.  P.  Benjamin,  of  Louisiana,  Secretary  of  State. 

C.  G.  Memminger,  of  South  Carolina,  Secretary  of  Treasury. 

James  A.  Seddon,  of  Virginia,  Secretary  of  "War. 

S.  R.  Mallory,  of  Florida,  Secretary  of  Navy. 

Thomas  H.  Watts,  of  Alabama,  Attorney-General. 

J.  H.  Reagan,  of  Texas,  Postmaster-General. 

FIRST  CONGRESS  OF  THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES. 


Alabama— f Clement  C.  Clay,  tWilliam  L.  Yancey. 
Arlansas — tRobt.  W.  Johnson,  Charles  B„ Mitchell. 
Florida — James  M.  Baker,  fAugustus  E.  Maxwell. 
Georgia — Benjamin  II.  Hill,  tRobert  Toombs. 
Kentuchy — fHenry  C.  Burnett,  tWilliam  E.  Simms. 
Louisiana — Thomas  J.  Semmes,  Edward  Sparrow. 
Missimppi — t Albert  G.  Brown,  James  Phelan. 


AND  REPOSITORY  OF  USEFUL  KNOWLEDGE.        33 

Mmotcri—iJohn  B.  Clark,  R.  S.  T.  Peytou. 
.  North  Carolina  j  George  Davis,  William  T.  Dortch. 

South  Carolina — tRobt.  W.  Barnwell,  tJames  L.  Orr. 

Tennessee — Langdon  0.  Haynes,  GustaTus  A.  Henry. 

r^^'a«— William  S.  Oldham,  tLouis  T.  Wigfall. 

Virginiii — Robert  M.  0.  T.  Hunter,  Wm.  Ballard  Preston. 

Those  having  the  t  prefixed  have  served  in  the  United  States 
Congress.  The  number  of  old  Congressmen  in  the  Senate  will  be 
fourteen.     New  Congressmen,  twelve.     Total,  twenty-six. 


HOUSE   OF   KEPRKSENTATIVES. 


DL 

it.                 ALABAMA. 

Dist 

MISSOURI. 

1. 

Thomas  J.  Foster. 

*   3. 

Casper  W.  Bell. 

2. 

tWiiliani  R.  Smith. 

4. 

A.  U.  Conrow. 

3. 

John  P.  Pvalls. 

5. 

George  G.  Vest. 

4. 

tJ.  L.  M.  Curry. 

0. 

Thomas  W.  Freeman. 

5. 

tFrancis  S.  Lyon.' 

7. 

John  Hyer. 

6. 

Wm.  P.  Chilton. 

NORTH  CAROLINA. 

7. 

fDavidClopton. 

1. 

tW.  N.  H.  Smith. 

8. 

t  James  L.  Pugh. 

2. 

Robert  R.  Bridgers. 

9. 

tEdw.  L.  Dargan. 

3. 

Owen  R.  Keenan. 

ARKANSAS. 

4. 

T.  D.  McDowell. 

\. 

Felix  L  Batson. 

5. 

Thomas  S.  Ashe. 

2. 

Grandison  D.  Royston. 

0. 

Arch.  H.  Arringtou. 

8. 

Augustus  H.  Garland. 

r. 

Robert  McLean. 

4. 

Thomas  B,  Hanly. 

8. 

William  Lander. 

FLORIDA. 

9. 

B.  S.  Gaither. 

1. 

James  B.  Dawkins. 

10. 

A.  T.  Davidson. 

2. 

Robert  B.  Hilton. 

SOUTH    CAROLINA.  "" 

GEORGIA. 

1. 

tJohn  McQueen. 

1. 

Julian  Hartridge. 

2. 

tW.Porcher  Miles. 

2. 

C.  J.  Munnerlyn. 

3. 

L.  M.  Ayer. 

8. 

Hines  Holt. 

4. 

tMilledge  L.  Bonhain 

4. 

Augustus  H.  Kenan 

5. 

James  Farrow. 

5. 

David  W.  Lewis. 

6. 

Wm.  W.  Boycc. 

0. 

William  W.  Clark. 

'  TENNESSEE. 

V. 

tRobert  P.  Trippe. 

1- 

Joseph  T.  Heiskell. 

8. 

tLucius  J.  Gartrell. 

2 

William  G,  Swan. 

9. 

Hardy  Strickland. 

s! 

W.  H.  Tebbs. 

0. 

t Augustus  R.  Wright. 

4. 

E.  L.  Gardenshire. 

KENTUCKY. 

5. 

tHenry  S.  Foote. 

1. 

Alfred  Boyd. 

6. 

tMeredith  P.  Gentry. 

2 

John  W.  Crockett. 

V. 

fGeorgo  W.  Jones. 

s'. 

H.  E.  Read. 

8. 

Thomas  Meneese. 

4. 

Geo.  ,W.  Ewing. 

9. 

tJ.  D.  C.  Atkins. 

6. 

t James  S.  Chrisman. 

10. 

tJohn  V.  Wright. 

6. 

T.  L.  Burnett. 

11. 

David  M.  Currin. 

34 


THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES  ALMAl)rAG, 


7.  H.  W.  Bruce. 

8.  S.  S.  Scott. 

9.  E.  M.  Bruce.  . 

10.  J.  W.  Moore. 

11.  Robt.  J.  Breckinridge. 

12.  John  M.  Elliott. 

LOUISIANA. 

1.  Charles  J.  Villere.    ' 

2.  f  Charles  M.  Conrad. 

3.  Duncan  F,  Keener. 

4.  Lucien  J.  Dupre. 

5.  John  F.  Lewis. 

6.  tJohn  Perkins,  Jr. 

MISSISSIPPI. 

1.  J.  W.  Clapp. 

2.  tReuben  Davis. 
8.  Israel  Welch. 

4.  II.  C.  Chambers. 

5.  to.  R.  Singleton. 
C^.  E.  Barksdale. 

7.  tJohn  J.  McRae. 

MISSOUEI. 

1.  W.  M.  Cook. 

2.  Thomas  A.  Harris. 


TEXAS. 

1.  tJohn  A.  Wilcox. 

2.  C.C.  Herbert. 

3.  Peter  W.  Gray. 
•4.  B.  F.  Sexton. 

5.  M.  D.  Graham. 

6.  Wm.  B.  Wright. 

VIRGINIA. 

1.  tM.  R.  H.  Garnett. 

2.  John  R.  Chambliss. 
8.  James  Lyon. 

4.  tRoger  A.  Pryor, 

5.  fThomasS.  Bocock. 
0.  John  Goode,  Jr. 

r.  J.  P.  Holcombe. 

8.  tD.  C.  DeJarnett. 

9.  tWilliam  Smith. 

10.  tA.  R.  Boteler. 

11.  John  R.  Baldwin. 

12.  Walter  R.  Staples. 
18.  Walter  Preston. 
M.  Albert  G.  Jenkins. 
15.  Robert  Johnston. 
IG.  Charles  W.  Russell. 


Those  marked  with  the  t  have  been  members  of  the  United 
States  Congress.  The  number  of  old  Congressmen  will  be  thirty- 
three.     New  Congressmen,  seventy-two. 

SENATORIAL  TERMS. 

Alalama — Mr.  Clay,  2  years ;  Mr.  Yancey,  G  years. 
AH'ansas — Mr.  Johnson,  2  years,  Mr.  Mitchell,  G  years. 
Florida — Mr.  Baker,  2  years  ;  Mr.  Maxwell,  4  years. 
Georgia — Mr.  Toombs,  2  years ;  Mr.  Hill,  6  years. 
Kentuclcy — Mr.  Simms,  2  years;  Mr.  Burnett,  6  years. 
Louisiana — Mr.  Semmes,  4  years ;  Mr.  Sparrow,  6  years. 
Mississipjn — Mr.  Phelan,  2  years ;  Mr.  Brown,  4  years. 
Missouri — Mr.  Clarke, ii  years  ;  Mr.  Peyton,  4  years. 
North  Garoliua — Mr.  Davis,  2  years ;  Mr.  Dortsch,  4  years. 
South  Carolina — '^Mr.  Barnwell,  4 years;  Mr.  Orr,  G  years. 
Tenne  see — Mr.  Henry,  4  years ;  Mr.  Ilaincs,  G  years. 
Tezas — Mr.  Wigfall,  4  years ;  Mr.  Oldham,  G  years. 
Virginia — Mr.  Preston,  4  years ;  Mr.  Hunter,  G  years. 

OUR  INDIAN  RELATIONS. 

The  information  which  has  been  furnished  Congress  by  the  re- 
port communicated  to  that  body  by  the  Indian  Bureau,  in  refer- 
ence to  the  condition  of  the  Indian  country,  is  of  an  interesting 


,  AND  REPOSITORY  OF  USEFUL  KNOWLEDG^E.        35 

mature.  The  fact  is  disclosed  that  a  very  large  majority  of  the  lu- 
dians  arc  true  to  the  Government  of  the  Confederate  States,  and 
are  as  orderly  in  their  conduct,  and  as  obedient  to  tlio  require- 
ments of  the  law,  as  ever  before.  Disaftoction,  however,  exists 
among  the  Cherokees,  Creeks  and  Seminoles,  and  perhaps  the 
small  bands  of  Osages,  Quapaws,  &c.,  who  live  upon  the  borders 
of  Kansas,  within  easy  reach  of  the  machinations  and  baneful  in- 
fluences of  the  enemy,  have  become  generally  disloyal.  In  regard 
to  this,  however,  nothing  is  certainly  known,  as  no  information 
from  the  Osage  agency  is  in  tlic  possession  of  the  bureau.  The 
disatfeotion  among  the  Cherokees  seems  to  be  of  a  limited  extent, 
and  among  the  Creeks  and  Seminoles,  although  a  short  time  ago 
it  had  taken  rather  a  wide  range,  (having  reached  a  large  portion 
of  both  tribes,)  has  been  counteracted  in  a  great  degree,  it  is  hoped 
by  the  defeat  of  Ho-poi-iph-li  Yo-ho-lo,  and  the  arpival  of  General 
Pike  in  the  country. 

Within  the  four  great  tribes — the  Choctaws  and  Chickasaws, 
Creeks,  Seminoles  and  Cherokees— the  hostilities  pending  between 
the  Confederate  and  the  Northern  States,  have  interfered  with 
aigrlcultural  and  mechanical  pursuits,  and  the  success  of  schools. 
The  military  spirit  moving  certain  portions  of  these  people,  and 
the  want  of  the  money  which  has  heretofore  been  paid  them  by 
the  old  United  States  Government,  have  been  the  causes  of  this 
derangement  in  their  industrial  and  educational  operations. 

The  report  of  the  government  contains  an  interesting,  statement 
of  the  geographical  features  of  the  country  inhabited  by  the  tribes 
of  red  men  who  have  linked  their  fortunes  with  those  of  the  Con- 
federate States. 

'  The  Indian  Torritory  (not  including;  the  Osage  country — its  ex- 
tent being  unknown — nor  the  800,000  acres  belonging  to  the 
Cherokees,  which  lie  between  Missouri  and  Kansas,)  embraces  an 
area  of  82,073  square  miles — more  than  fifty-two  and  a  half  mil- 
lions of  acres,  to  wit: 

The  land  of  the  Cherokees,  Osages,  Quapaws,  Senecas,  and 
Shawnees,  28,105  square  milos,  or  24,288,800  acres; 

That  of  the  Creeks  and  Seminoles  20,581'  square  miles,  or 
13,140,000  acres ; 

That  of  the  Reserve  Indians,  and  the  Choctaws  and  Chickasaws, 
23,437  square  miles  or  15,000,000  acres;  " 

Total  82,073  square  miles,  or  52,528,800  acres. 

Its  population  consists  of  Cherokees,  23,000  ;  Osages,  7,500 ; 
.Quapaws,  320;  Creeks,  13,500;  Seminoles,  2,500;  Reserve  In- 
dians, 2,000 ;  Choctaws,  17,500,  and  Chickasaws,  4,700 — making 
an  aggregate  of  71,520  souls. 

This  Indian  country  is,  in  many  respects,  really  a  magnificent 
one.  It  is  one  of  the  brightest  and  fairest  spots  of  the  great  West. 
By  the  hand  of  nature  it  has  been  blessed  with  advantages  in  great 
profusion,  and  of  the  highest  and  rarest  character.    Diversified 


30  THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES  ALMANAC,       • 

by  mountains  filled  with  iron,  coal  and  other  mineral  treasures, 
and  broad  reaching  plains  capable  of  grazing,  for  a  large  portion 
of  the  year,  innumerable  herds  of  cattle — witli  the  Red  river  run- 
ning along  its  southern  border,  the  Arkansas  river  almost  through 
its  centre,  and  their  tributaries  reticulating  its  entire  surface — 
possessed  of  a  climate  generally  mild  and  genial,  and  a  soil  unsur- 
passed for  depth  and  fertility,  adapted  to  the  growth  of  cotton; 
hemp  and  all  kinds  of  grain,  it  is  certainly  the  equal  naturally  of 
the  most  favored  lands  on  this  continent,  and  only  needs  the  devel- 
opment of  its  resources  to  become  an  invaluable  adjunct  of  the 
Confederate  States. 


PRODUCTION  OF  BREADSTUFFS— STATISTICS  FROM 

'     ■    THE  CENSUS  OF  1860. 

The  following  statistics  are  derived  from  the  last  United  States 
census  reports : 

WHEAT,  RYE  AND  COEN  PRODUCED  IN  THE  UNITED  STATES  IN  1860. 

Wheat.  Bye.  Corn. 

States,                                   Bushels.  Bushels.  Bushels. 

California 5,946,600  55,000  524,800 

Connecticut 62,400  618,700  2,059,800 

Delaware 913,000  27,200  3,892,400 

Illinois .- 24,159,500  981,200  115,3p6,800 

Indiana 15,219,100  400,200  69,641,600 

Iowa... 8,433,200  176,000  41,117,000 

Kansas.. 168,500  3,900  5,678,800 

Kentucky 7,394,800  1,055,300  64,043,600 

Maiue 233,900  123,300  1,546,000 

Maryland..... 6,103,500  519,000  13,445,000 

Massachusetts 119,800  388,000  2,115,000 

Michigan 8,313,200  494,200  12,552,100 

Minnesota 2,195,800  124,300  2,685,600 

Missouri .-. 4,227,600  593,300  72,892,000 

New   Hampshire 239,000  128,300  1,414,700 

New  Jersey , .     1,763,100  1,439,500  9,723,800 

New  York .....8,681,100  4,787,000  20,961,000 

Ohio .-.14,532,000  656,100  70,637,100 

Oregon 822,400  2,700  74,600 

Pennsylvania 13,045,200  5,474,800  28,796,800 

Rhode  Island * 1,100  28,300  459,000 

Vermont 431,100  131,000  6,463,000 

Wisconsin 15,812,600  887,500  7,565,300 

Territories 1,007,400  11,200  2,767,200 

Total  bushels 139,81^,500  18,803,100  549,786,700 


74,000 

32,761,200 

77,900 

17;758,700„ 

21,300 

2,824,500 

115,000 

80,776,300 

12,800 

10,205,900 

41,300 

29,563,700 

436,800 

80,078,600 

89,100. 

15,065,600 

200,300 

50,748,300 

95,000 

16,521,600 

944,000 

38,360,700 

2,173,100 

280,055,100 

18,803,100 

549,786,700 

20,976,200 

830,451,800 

14,188,800 

592,071,000 

AND  REPOSITORY  OF  USEFUL  KNOWLEDGE.        37 

Seceding  States.  Wheat.  Rye.  Corn. 

Alabama 1,222,500 

Arkansas 955,300 

Florida 2,800 

Georgia 2,545,000 

Louisiana 29,300 

Mississippi 579,500 

North  Carolina ,  . .  4,743,700 

South  Carolina 1,265,600 

Tennessee 5,409,000 

Texas 1,464,300 

Virginia 13,169,160 

Seceding  States 31,367,000 

Other  States 139,816,500 

Totals.  1860 171,183,500 

''        1850. 100.486,000 

The  relative  value  of  thoee  three  products  in  the  loyal  and  in 
the  seceding  States  may  be  represented  as  follows  : 

Wheat  at  |1.25.     Rye  at  75c.     Corn  at  50c. 

Loyal  States. . ., $174,770,000     $14,103,000     $274,893,000 

Seceding  States 39,209,000         1,630,000       140,332,000 

Total,  1860 $218,979,000     $15,733,000     $415,225,000 

"        1850 125,607,000       10,641,000       296,025,000 

From  this  ofllcial  return  it  would  appear  that  New  York,  which 
was  in  1830—40,  one  of  the  leading  wheat  producing  States,  has 
now  become  the  seventh,  and  is  about  on  a  parallel  with  Michigan 
in  the  article  of  wheat.  Agriculturists  state  that  the  cultivation 
of  wheat  or  any  other  article  for  a  long  series  of  years,  without  in- 
tertnission,  is  an  injury  to  the  soil  and  to  the  crops.  If  New  York 
would  recover  her  position  as  a  leading  State  in  the  production  of 
wheat,  more  attention  must  be  given  to  rotation  of  crops.  The 
relative  position  of  this  State  as  a  wheat  producer,  since  1840,  is 
shown  in  the  annexed  summary  of  all  the  States  producing  over 
five  million  bushels  each. 


38           THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES  ALMAKAO, 

\VHEAT-PEODUCI^'G  8TATE8,  1840,  1860. 

1840.  1850.                    1860. 

Illinois,  *      -         -          8,335,400  9,414,000  24,159,500 

Indiana,    -         -         -     4,049,400  6,214,400  15,219,100 

Wisconsin,         -        -       212,100  4,286  100  15,812,600 

Ohio,         -         -'       -  16,571,600  14,487,300  14,582,600 

Virginia,  -         -         -  10,109,700  11,212,600  18,129,100 

Pennsylvania,  -         -  18,213,000  15,367,700  13,045,200 

New  York,        -         -  12,286,400  •       13^121,500  8,681,100 

Michigan,-         -         -     2,157,100  4,925,800  8,318,200 

Iowa,        -         -         -        151,700  1,530,500  8,433,200 

Kentucky,         -         -    4,803,100  2,142,800  7,394,800 

Maryland,          -         -     3,345,700  4,494,600  6,103,500 

California,         -         -  17,200  2,946,600 

Tennessee,         -.        -     4,569,700  1,619,400  5,469,900 


Thirteen  States,         -  74,804,900       '    88,834,500  146,180,400 

All  others,         -         -  13,708,300  11,651,300  25,003,100 


Bushels  of  Wheat,     -  88,513,200        100,485,800  171,183,500 

Thus  the  West  and  Northwest  must  become  the  future  granary 
for  the  supply  of  the  Eastern  States  of  Europe,  while  other  States, 
giving  more  attention  to  other  crops,  neglect  the  cereals. 

New  York,  in  1840,  with  a  population  of  2,428,921,  produced 
12,286,400  bushels  of  wheat,  or  five  bushels  per  capita^  and  in 
1850  a  little  over  four  bushels  ^<?r  m^?'i«  ;  but  now  this  produc- 
tion is  reduced  to  about  two  and  a  quarter  bushels  each.  The 
production  of  the  whole  country  per  head,  according  to  the  census 
of  1840-1860,  has  been  as  follows : 


Wheat. 

Bushels. 

Year. 

Population. 

Product.    • 

per  Capita. 

1840, 

-     17,069,453 

88,513,000 

5.12 

1850, 

-     23,191,876 

100,485,000 

4.33 

1^60, 

-     31,445,089 

171,183,000 

5.44 

Of  the  facilities  for  increased  production  in  the  United  States, 
the  new  report  of  the  Superintendent  of  the  Census,  says  : 

"Whether  the  superior  agricultural  advantages  and  the  demand 
for  the  implements,  and  machinery  in  the  United  States  have 
stimulated  the  facile  ingenuity  of  our  mechanics,  or  have  only 
been  seconded  by  its  ready  contributions  to  industry,  wo  shall 
not  stop  to  inquire.  The  greatest  triumphs  of  mechanical  skill 
in  its  application  to  agriculture  are  witnessed  in  the  instruments 
adapted  to  the  tillage,  harvesting  and  subsequent  handling  of  thp 
immense  grain  crop  of  the  country,  and  particularly  upon  the 
western  prairies.  Without  the  improvements  in  ploughs  and  other 
implements  of  tillage,  which  have  been  multiplied  to  an  incredible 


AND*REPOSITORY  OF  USEFUL  KNOWLEDGE.        39 

extent,  and  are  now  apparently  about  to  culminate  in  the  steam 
plough,  the  vast  wheat  and  corn  crops  of  those  fertile  plains  could 
not  probably  be  raised.  But  were  it  possible"  to  produce  wheat 
upon  the  scale  it  is  now  raised,  much  of  the  profits  and  not  a  little 
of  the  product  would  be  lost  were  the  farmer  compelled  to  wait 
upon  the  slow  process  of  the  sickle,  the  cradle  and  the  hand  rake 
for  securing  it  when  ripe,  The  reaping  machine,  the  harvester, 
and  machines  for  threshing,  winnowing  and  cleaning  his  wheat  for 
the  market,  have  become  quite  indispensable  to  every  large  grain 
grower.  The  commercial  importance  of  the  wheat  crop,  and  its 
various  relations  to  the  subject  of  do  tiestic  and  foreign  supply,  to 
markets,  the  means  of  transportation, 'storage,  &c..  make  it  highly 
important  that  the  producer  shall  have  the  means  of  putting  his 
crop  in  the  market  at  the  earliest  or  most  favorable  time  and  with 
the  greatest  precision. 

While  the  surplus  of  the  year,  18G0,  must  have  been  large,  there 
is  no  doubt  that  the  production  in  1801  and  1862  has  been  much 
larger,  probably  exceeding  two  hundred  millions  of  bushels  of 
wheat.  It  is  well  to  recur,  in  the  consideration  of  this  question,  to 
the  returns  of  foreign  exports  from  the  United  States  in  breadstuffs. 
These  were  officially  stated  as  follows  : 


Year.  Value. 

1845 $7,445,000 

1846 16,605,000 

1847 58,262,000 

1848... .• 22,608,000 

1849 22,896,000 

1850 13,066,000 

1851 14,556,000 

1852 17-,256,000 


Yea7\  Value. 

1853 $21,875,000 

1854 •.  48,383,000 

1855 21,557,000 

1856 56,619,000 

1857 • 55,624,000 

1858 33,698,000 

1859 24,893,000 

1860 28,590,000 


In  the  year  1861  the  value  of  breadstuffs  and  provisions  export- 
ed had  increased  to  $94,866,000,  against  $45,271,000  in  the  pre- 
vious year.  These  facts  show  conclusively  that  the  United  States 
are  capable  of  producing  wheat  and  corn  to  such  an  extent  as  will 
enable  us  to  become  a  creditor  nation  in  our  trade  with  European 
countries.  The  gold  of  the  Pacific,  the  breadstuffs  of  the  West  and 
I^orthwost,  added  to  a  protective  tariff,  will,  together,  contribute 
to  reinstate  public  credit  and  individual  enterprise  whenever  the 
end  of  the  war  shall  arrive. 

DOMESTIC  A^^D  INDIAN  MISSIONS. 
We  have  received  a  copy  of  the  seventeenth  annual  report  of 
the  Board  of  Directors  of  Domestic  and  Indian  Missions  of  the' 
Southern  Baptist  Convention,  from  which  it  appears  that  the  re- 
ceipts for  the  Domestic  department  have  been  $5,389.85,  and  the 
disbursements  $4,511.52,  leaving  with  the  amount  on  hand  at  the 
opening  of  the  year — $1,673.63 — a  balance  in  the  treasury  of 
$3,652.03.    The  receipts  in  the  Indian  department  were  $8,606.88, 


40  THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES  ALMANAC, 

and  the  disbursements  for  tlie  same  time,  $9,505.90.     The  report 

contains  interesting  reports  of  the  operations  of  the  Board,  in 
the  different  fields  of  labor. 

THE  "VALUE"  OF  THE  LATE  UNITED  STATES. 

The  census  of  1860  shows  the  following  as  the  money  value  of 
tlio  "glorious"  but  defunct  Union : 

Assessed  value  of  Assessed  value  of  True  Volue  of  Real 

States.                                            Real  EstJite.  Personal  Estate.  and  Personal  Estate. 

Maine, $86,717,710  $07,062,672  $190,211,600 

New  Hampshire.  .       59,638,346  64,171,743  156,310,860 

Vermont 65,039,973  19,118,646  122,477,170 

Massachusetts 475,413,105"  301,744,051  815,287,438 

Rhode   Island 83,778,204  41,320,101  135,337,588 

Conneeticut 191,478,842"  149,778,134  444,274,114 

New  York 1,009,058,080  320,806,558  1,848,338,517 

New  Jersey 151,161,742  145,520,550  467,918,324 

Pennsylvania 561,192,980  158,060,355  1,416,501,818 

Delaware 26,273,803  13,493,430  46,242,181 

Maryland 65,341,438  231,793,800  876,949,944 

Virginia 417,952,228  239,069,100  793,249,681 

North  Carolina....  110,866,573  175,931,029  358,739,399 

Florida 21,722,810  47,206,875  78,101 ,500 

Alabama 155,034,089  277,164.673  495,237,078 

Louisiana 280,704,988  155,082,277  602,118,568 

Arkansas . . .  .* 68,254,740  116,956,590  219,256,472 

D.  Columbia 33,097,542  7,987,408  41,084,945 

Missouri •..     153,430,577  113,485,274  501,214,398 

Kentucky....    ....     277,925,054  250,287,689  666,048,112 

South  Carolina  . . .     129,772,684  359,546,444  548,138,754 

Illinois 287,219,940  101,987,432  871,860,282 

Indiana 291,829,992  119,112,432  528,835,371 

Texas 112,476,013  155,316,322  305,200,014 

Kansas 10,088,002  0,429,080.  31,327,895 

Iowa. 149,488,423  55,733,500  274,838,265 

Tennessee 219,991,180  162,504,020  493,908,892 

Michigan 123,005,084  89,927,921  257,163,983 

Wisconsin 148,238,706  87,700,723  273,071,068 

California 00,900,081  72,748,080  207,874,613 

Minnesota 25,891,771  0,727,001  52,294,413 

Ohio 087,518,121  272,348,980  1,193,898,422 

Mississippi 157,830,737  351,030,175  607,324,911 

Georgia 179,801,441  488,480,940  045,895,287 

Oregon 6,279,002  12,745,313  28,930,037 

New  Mexico 7,018,200  18,828,520  20,813,768 

Utah 280,504  3,801,510  5,590,118 

Washington 1,870,003  2,518,072  5,001,400 

Nebraska. 5,732,145  1,694,804  9,131,056 

$16,159,916,086 


AKD  REPOSITORY  OF  USEFUL  KNOWLEDGE.        41 
LIABILITIES  OF  THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES. 

BTATEMEXT   FOK   THE   YEAR   ENDING    SEPTEMBER   1ST,  1862. 

The  present  liabilities  of  the  Southern  Confederacy  are  said  to 
approximate  to  the  following  figures  :     .  , 

Borrowed  from  Banks -. $50,000,000 

State  aid,  to  he  reimbursed 45,000,000 

Duo  bills  for  property  seized 65,000,000 

Due  bills  for  property  destroyed 40,000,000 

.  War  loans 65,000,000 

Treasury  notes 100,000,000 

Due  soldiers 45,000,000 

•Total.. $410,000,000 

COTTON  AND  SUGAR. 

The  New  Orleans  Shipping  List  has  been  resumed. .  The  cotton 
statement  shows  a  beggarly  account.  The  stock  on  the  20tli  of 
August  was  352  bales.  The  receipts  during  tlie  year^  ending  Sep- 
tember 1st,  were  39,730  bales.  Exported  for  the  year,  27,296 
•bales.  The  statistics  of  the  sugar  crop  of  Louisiana  are  as 
follows: 

The  actual  yield  is  estimated  to  have  comprised  459,410^  hogs- 
heads, averaging  1,150  lbs.  and  making  an  aggregate  weight  of 
528,231,500  pounds.  This  embraced  389.264  hogsheahs  of  brown 
^ugar,  made  by  the  old  process,  and  70,146  refined,  clarifiecl,  etc., 
including  cistern  bottoms,  the  whole  being  the  product  of  1,291 
sugar-houses,  of  which  1,027  were  worked  by  steam  and  264  by 
horse  power.  Tlie  crop  of  the  preceding  year  amounted  to  228,753 
hogsheads,  weighing  26a,065,000  lbs.,  showing  an  increase  for  the 
last  year  of  263,065,000  lbs.,  showing  an  increase  for  the  last  year 
of  230,657  hogsheads,  or  265,266,500  pounds.  _      ' 

According  to  our  calculations  the  price  of  the  entire  crop  has 
averaged  4fc.  against  5^c.  last  year.  At  this  average,  and  taking 
the  estimate  of  1,150  pounds  to  the  hogshead,  the  aggregate  value 
of  the  crop  of  459,410  hogsheads  is  $25,095,291,  against  $14,468,- 
627,  the  product  of  228,753  hogsheads  last  year  ;  or  an  increase  of 
$10,626,644.  The  receipts  on  the  levee  since  the  1st  of  September 
have  been  225,356  hogsheads,  and  7,907  tierces  and  barrels,  against 
174,637  hogsheads  and  5,976  tierces  and  barrels  last  year. 

The  stock  now  on  hand  in  the  State  is  estimated  at  170,000 
hogsheads.  * 

The  yield  of  molasses  from  the  last  year's  cane  crop  is  estimated 
«t  70  gallons  for  each  1,000  pounds  of  sugar,  against  the  same  for 
theprevious  year,  or  an  aggregate  of  36,982,505  gallons  against 
18,414,550  the  year  previous,  .showing  an  increase  of  18,567,955 
gallons,  or  more  than  as  much  again.     The  arrivals  at  the  levee 


42  THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES  AI.HANAC, 

duriDg  the  season  have  been  -iOl/iO-i  barrels,  against  313,260  labt 
year,  showing  an  increase  of  87,944  barrels. 

The  total  value  of  the  product,  estimated  at  an  average  of  18| 
cents  per  gallon,  sums  up  $6,703,079  against  $4,235,446  last  year, 
showing  an  increase  of  $2,467,733. 


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THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES  ALMANAC, 


POPULATION  OF  THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES, 

ACCOKDING  TO- THE  CENSUS  OF  1860. 


States. 


Virginia ...... 

North  Carolina 
South  Carolina 

Georgia 

Florida 

Alabama 

Mississippi 

Louisiana 

Arkansas 

Texas 

Tennesse  — . . . 

Missouri 

Kentucky 


White.      Slaves. 


1,097,873 
697,965 
308,186 
615,3^6 
81,865 
520,444 
407,551 
.  354,245 
331,710 
515,999 
859,528 

1,185,590 
920,077 


495,826 
328,377 
407,185 
467,461 
93,809 
435,473 
497,607 
312,186 
109,065 
184,956 
287,112 
115,619 
225,490 


Total. 


1,593,100 

1,008,342 

715,871 

1,082,797 

145,694 

935,917 

887,158 

666,431 

440,775 

600,955 

1,146,640 

1,801,209 

1,145,567 


7,895,869  3,960,166    11,669,956 
POPULATION    OF    THE  TERRITORIES. 

Territories.  Population  In  I860.        Population  in  1860. 

New  Mexico 61,547  93,024 

Arizona 9,000 

RATES   OF   POSTAGE   IN   THE   CONFEDERATE  STATES 
OF    AMERICA. 

Rates  of  Postage  between  Places  within  the  Confedeeate 
States  of  Amebioa. — On  Letters. — Single  letters,  not  exceeding 
half  an  ounce  in  weight,  for  any  distance  10  cents;  an  additional 
single  rate  for  each  additional  half  ounce  or  less.  Drop  letters,  2 
cents  each.  In  the  foregoing  cases,  the  postage  to  be  prepaid  by 
ssainps  OP  stamped  envelopes.     Advertised  letters,  2  cents  each. 

On  FacJcages — Containing  other  than  printed  or  written  matter 
— money  packages  are  included  in  this  class — to  be  rated  by 
\v'eight,  as  letters  are  rated,  and  to  be  charged  the  same  rate  of 
postage  as  on  letters,  to  wit :  For  any  distance,  ten  cents  for  each 
half  ounce  or  less.  In  all  cases  to  be  prepaid  by  stamps  or  stamped 
envelopes.  »■ 

On  Newspapers  sent  to  regular  and  lonajide  subscribers  from  the 
office  of  publication,  and  not  exceeding  3  ounces  in  weight  : 

Within  the  State  where  Published. — Weekly  paper,  6^  cents  per 


ANl5  REPOSITORY  OF  USEFUL  KNdWLEDGE.        45 

quarter;  semi-weekly  paper,  13  cents  per  quarter;  tri- weekly- 
paper,  19|  cents  per  quarter;  daily  paper,  39  cents  per  quarter. 
In  all  cases  the  postage  to  he  paid  <piarterly  in  advance,  at  the 
offices  of  the  subscribers.  "  '  *"*' 

Without  the  State  where-  ruUished.—-V\  eeklj  paper,  13  cents 
per  quarter;  semi-weekly  paper,  20  cents  per  quarter;  tri-weeklp 
paper,  39  cents  per  quarter  ;  daily  paper,  78  cents  per  quarter. 
In  all  cases  the  postage  to  be  paid  quarterly  in  advance  at  t^)!e 
offices' of  the  subscribers. 

On  Periodicals  sent  to  regular  and  honajfide  subscribers  fromt^e 
office  of  publication,  and  not  exceeding  1^  ounce  in  weight: 

Within  the  State  where  Pnllislied. — Monthly,  8  cents  per  quarter, 
or  1  cent  for  each  number  ;  semi-monthly,  6  cents  per  quarter,  or 
1  cent  for  each  number — an  additional  cent  each  number  for 
every  additional  ounce  Or  less  beyond  the  first  1^  ounce;  bi- 
monthly, or  quarterly,  1  cent  an  ounce.  In  all  cases  the  postage 
to  be  paid  quarterly  in  advance  at  the  offices  of  subscriber'^. 

iV'ithout  the  State  where  P?f^?M<?^,-^N"t)texoeedrng'l^  ounce  in 
weight :  '  • 

Monthly,  6  cents  per  quarter,  or  2  cents  for  each  number ;  semi- 
monthly, 12  cents  per  quarter,  or  2, cents  for  each  number — two 
cents  additional  for  every  additional  ounce  or  less  beyond  the 
first  1^  ounce;  bi-monthly,  or  quarterly,  2  cents  an  ounce.  In  all 
cases  the  postage  to  be  paid  quartoi^  in  advance,  at  the  office  of 
the  subscribers.  '■    •" 

On    Tramlefit    Printed  Matter. Every    other    newspaper, 

pamphlet,  periodical  and  magazine,  esfch  circular  not  sealed,  hand- 
bill and  engraving,  not  exceeding  three  ounces  in  weight,  2  cents, 
for  any  distance — two  cents  additional  for  each  additional  ounce 
or  less  beyond  the  first  3  ounces.  In  all'  cases  the  postage  to  be 
prepaid  by  stamps  or  stamped  envelopes.  _•♦  • 

Franking  Privilege. — The  following  persons  only  are  entitled  to 
the  franking  privilege,  and  in  all  cases  strictly  confined  to  official 
business :  Postmaster-General,  his  Chief  Clerk,  Auditor  of  the 
Treasury  for  the  Post-office  Department,  and  Deputy  Postmasters, 
the  Chiefs  of  Contract  and  Fiaauce  Bw?^vy.  ........  ^u . 


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46 


THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES  ALMANAC, 


POPULATION   OF  SOME  OF  THE  PPJNCIPAL   CITIES  IN 
THE  SOUTHERN  STATES. 


CITIES. 


Baltimore 

New  Orleans  . . 

St.  Louis 

Louisville 

Charleston  ..... 
Richmond  .... 

Savannah 

Mobile 

Na.*<hvillc 

Memphis 

Montgonier  J . . . 

Augusta 

Natchez 

Petersburg. . .  . 

Norfolk......... 

Wilmington  .^^ 
Galveston....  .' 

Virksburg  .... 


STATES. 

1850 

1860 

Maryland. 

109,054 

212,418 

Louisiana 

116,375 

172,786 

Missouri 

77,860 

160,479 

Kentucky 

43,194 

75,196 

South  Carolina 

37,989 

48,494 

Virginia 

27,570 

39,860 

Georgia 

15,812 

28,739 

Alabama 

20,515 

24,720 

Tennessee 

18,478 

"  29,783 

Tennessee 

10,841 

29,830 

Alabama 

8,728- 

12,243 

Ge^orgia 

8,225 

16,490 

Mississippi 

4,439 

7,321 

Virginia 

14,610 

18,213 

Virginia 

14,336 

18,965 

North  Carolina 

7,268 

12,362 

Texas 

5,210 

10,112 

Mississippi 

4,740 

7,420 

.   The  number  of  Volunteer  troops  raised  in  some  of  the  States, 
previous  to  the  enforcement  of  the  Conscription  act,  were  : 

Alabama e 65,000  men 

South  Carolina 41,873     " 

Georgia 33,000     " 

PATENT  OFFICE  REPORT. 
The   Report  of  the  Commissioner  of  Patents,  -which  has  been 
sent  into  Congress,  shows  the  following  as  the  condition  of  the 
office  at  the  close  of  the  past  year : 

Number  of  applications  for  I'atents  ....  * 304 

do         Caveats , 110 

do        Patents  issued 57 

do         United  States  Patents  and  Assign- 
ments thereof  recorded i .- 112 

Amount  of  Fees  received $9,000  90 

Amount  of  expenditures 6,188  28 


Excess  of  receipts  x;)ver  expenditures.. $2, 812  62 
The  considerable  excess  of  the  receipts  over  tliQ  expenditures. 


AND  REPOSITORY  OF  USEFUL  KNOWLEDGE.        4? 

up  to  the  period  to  ^\Jiicli  this  report  exteuds,  and  which  has  re- 
sulted in  placiug  a  surplus  of  $2,812  02  in  the  Treasury  to  the 
credit  of  the  Patent  Fund,  sufficiently  demonstrates  thai  the  office 
is  the  most  prosperous  in  its  financial  department,  and  that  it  is 
self-sustaining. 

A  COMPARATIVE  VIEW  OF  THE  SOUTHERN  AND 
NORTHERN  TRADE,  &c. 
There  is  so  much  misapprehension  in  relation  to  our  foreign 
trade,  and  it  is  so  important  at  the  present  juncture  to  have^a  cor- 
rect understanding  upon  the  subject,  that  at  the  risk  of  repetitioh, 
we  shall  recur  to  it  again.  For  this  purpose  we  shall  take  from 
the  official  returns  of  1861  the  amount  of  exports,  distinguishing 
the  exclusively  Northern  from  the  cxclifsively  Southern  origin  of 
of  the  articles : 

UNITED    STATES    EXPOBTS. 

Northern  origin.  Southern  origin. 

Forest $6,085,931 

Products  of  the  sea.  $4,150,180     Breadstufts 9,567.397 

Forrest. 9,368,917     Cotton 191,80^  ■;55 

Provisions 20,215,220     Tohacco 1 9,278,021 

B-eadstuffs 19,022,901     Hemp,  etc • 746,370 

Manufactures 25,599,547     Manufactures 10,934,795 

Northern  origin.  .  .$77,363,070     Southern  origin".  .$238,419,680 

Total  exports $335,782,740 

Imports   consumed .- 336,380,172 

These  are  the  figures  of  tho  Treasury  table,  and  their  careful 
consideration  may  dispel  some  strange  illusions  that  possess  the 
public  mind.  Among  the  items,  it  will  be  observed,  under  the 
head  of  products  of  the  forest,  Georgia  pine  and  lumber,  naval 
stores,  etc.,  bear  a  high  figure.  All  those  who  have  been  patient- 
ly awaiting  the  South  to  bo  "starved  out,"  will  observe  with 
some  surprise  that  it  supplies  one-third  of  all  the  breadstuff's  ex- 
ported from  the  Union,  Hence,  if  they  cannoj.  eat  cotton,  they 
will  not  starve.  The  manufactures  which  originate  in  the  South 
form  also  a  small  sum  total  for  which  many  are  not  prepared. 

The  result  is,  that  the  North  furnishes  one-fourth  of  the  mer- 
chandise exported  and  the  South  three-fourths.  It  will  now  be 
understood  that  three-fourths  of  the  national  exports  are  embar- 
goed by  blockade.  It  is  very  important  thoroughly  to  understand 
that  fact,  because  on  it  hangs  all  the  finance  of  the  war.  Bread- 
stuffs  and  provisions,  it  will  be  observed,  form  one-half  of  the 
Northern  exports,  and  the  harvest  in  England  being  good,  those 
articles,  if  sold  at  all,  must  be  sold  very  low^ 


48  THE  COiTFEDERATE  STATES  ALMAIS^AO, 

If  we  turn  to  tlie  iipportatious  into  the  couutry  we  find  tlie  fol- 
Idwing  results:    "/'f  .*^V^-v.  i-.w^  .  -  vj  _w,1;r  •:.• 

r  .  Specie.'  '  -  (TOod.s\  Total.  ■ 

l^onh. t4.,780,598'*-  "  $310,84:2,381         $n21,692,970 

South 3,770.540  86,802,738  40,573,284 

Total.'-;  ^.:rU.;.':i$8,S51, 135       $358,645,119       $362,166,254 

The  specie  imports  at  the  So\ith  are  mostly  silver  from  Mexico, 
and  of  the  merchandise,  coffee  counts  $9,731,617 ;  sugar  for 
$3,500,000;  for  AVesteru  account,  iron,  queens- ware,  etc.,  for  the 
balance.    J^oWj,  if  w^  bring  tlie  aggregates  togetlier,  they  will  i^iliow 

t'^  iir-no     Total  Im.      .  Total  Ex.       Es;cess  Im.        Excess  J^x. 
North... $316,812,381     $77,367,070     $239,449,311.     "■.  7  ' 
South...      3.6,802,738     238,419,670  $201,616,932 

.  "We  have  here  the  conclusive  fact  that  the  three  fourths  of  the 
?v^hole  foreign  trade  of  tlie  country  is  Southern.  The  exports  are 
producer  'liere,  and  the  goods  they  get  payment  for  come  to.  them 
thiough  >l<iw  York  to  the  great  profit  of  its  merchants.  The 
South  also  sent  North  for  Northern  ijor^sumption  in  1860,  as 
follows  .  \    ' 

■;ir'    Cotton,  1,000.000  bales. . .  . . . . .  .  .'.•,. .  .$55,000,000 

'^*'    Tobacco, ::?i^:[  .'■:.-.•. .:....:.. .". ....  io,ooO,ooo 


2T{ 


7.  Sugar. 18,000,000 

•"Rice  :...:.......;.:.. ^.....■^...v.^•*  1,000,000 

'     Wheat  and  Corn  .■.:::.;:;.\..\.:r:^?fV''.  5,000,000 


Naval  Stores .3,.^  .  ;,{,.-*. 1,000,000 

'^0tal^' 49,0, 000, 000 

In  this  connection,  we  call  attention  to  the  following  from  the 
London  Economist,  in  relation  to  the  Briti.sh  trade  for  the  first 
three  months  of  this  year  : 

"Our  commerce  with  the  South  and  with  the  North  is  iiow  tor 
the  first  time  dividfed  in  the  official  tables.     It  appears  that  all  our 
direet  exports  are  to  the  North.     The  figures  are  : 
•  ';'    Exports  to  Northern  States,      --'   -•        £3,922,133 
Exports  to  Southern  States.      -        -  174,563 

Showing  a  startling  contrast  iu  the  amount  we  actually  sell  to 
to  the  two  belligerents.  The  contrast  is  nearly  as  remarkable  in 
what  we  buy,  only  it  is  reversed!      - 

Imports  into  Great  Britain  from  Northern  ports,       -    £4,697,868 
Imports  into  Great  Britain  from  Southern  ports,      -       6,136,186 


ANDR  EPOSITOKY  OF  USEFUL  KNOWLEDGE.        49 

"We  see  in,  tliesc  simple,  figures  the  record  of  tlie-cliuses  of,  much 
that  has  occurred  in  Lombard  street- 

"It  is  therefore  difficult  to  say  with  which  of  the  combatants 
in  this  struggle  we  are  the  most  connected;  One  party  supplies 
us  with  the  materials  of  our  industry,  the  other  party  purchases 
the  fruits  of  that  industry  from  us.'' 

This  is  a  very  singular  error  for  so  high  a  commercial  authority 
as  the  London  Economist  to  fall  into.  What  England  receives  is 
Southern  produce,  direct  from  tlie  South:  but  what  she  sends  to 
%thc  North,  that  is  to  say,  New  York,  is  on  its  way  to  the  South. 
When  the  separation  takes  place  England  would  not  continue  to 
sell  largely  to  the  Nortli,  but  the  goods  would  go  direct  fo  the 
ports  from  vs^hence  the  raw  material  is  derived.  In  such  a  state  oi 
affairs,  the  West  would  be  bound  over  hand  and  foot  to  the  East- 
ern States.  She  would  have  to  buy  their  manufactures  dear  and 
sell  them  food  cheap.  The  interests  of  the  South  and  the  West 
are  identical,  both  being  agricultural,  and  both  of  them  sources 
of  supply  for  Europe  in  opposition  to  the  Eastern  States.  The 
great  Western  valley  of  tlie  Mississippi,  with  its  undeveloped  nat- 
ural manufacturing  advantages,  has  the  vast  Southern  market  open 
to  its  future  enterprise,  when  capital  sliall  have  accumulated  from 
agricultural  industry  and  fertile  land.  This  war  is  retarding  her 
progress  fifty  years  at  least,  and  perhaps"  ruining  it. forever. 

THE  CONDITION  OF  BANKS  IN  THE  SOUTHERN  STATES 

FOR ^1860.  •'?.,'*  ^  '■   '. 

The  report  of  tlie  Secretary  ot!th'e  Ti^asrury  of  the  United  States 
of  March  26,  18G0,  gives  a  statement  of  the  condition  of  the  banks 
of  the  Southern  States,  from  which  we  have  prepared  the  following 
tables,  showing  their  capital,  loans  and  discounts,  specie,  circula- 
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AND  EEPOSITORY  OF  USEFUL  KNOWLEDGE.        51 

THE  POS^MASTEK-GENEPvAL'S  REPORT. 

The  total  cost  of  tlie  mail  service  in  the  eleven  States  of  Ala- 
bama, Arkansas,  Florida,  Georgia,  Louisiana,  Mississippi;  North 
Carolina,  South  Caroliua,  Tennessee,  Texas  and  Virginia,  for  the 
fiscal  year  ending  June  80th,  1860,  under  the  Government  of  the 
United  States,  was  4,296,240.78  ;  and  the  total  receipts  for  postal 
service,  for  the  same  year,  were  $1,517,540.55.  Excess  of  expen- 
ditures over  receipts,  $2,778,706.23.  The  receipts  for  the  frac- 
tional quarter  of  one  month,  ending  the  30th  of  June  last  has  shown 
by  the  meagre  and  imperfect  returns)  were  $92,387.07,  and  the 
expenditures  $200;937. 97;  excess  of  expenditnre>;  over  receipts, 
$108,553.30. 

Of  an  appropriation  of  $30,000  to  carry  into  eliect  an  Act  of 
Congress,  "relative  to  telegraph  lines  in  the  Confederate  States,"' 
there  has  been  expended  $15,136.77.  Eight  lines  cf  telegraph  have 
been  built,  of  the  aggregate  length  of  217  milc-^,  at  an  aggregate 
cost  of  $4,305.32.  fen  and  a  half  miles  of  insulated  oopper  wire, 
with  batteries,  &c.,  have  been  made  and  sent  to  the  army  for  field 
operations,  at  a  cost  of  $4,763.80.  Operators  and  watchmen  have 
been  employed  at  a  cost  of  $1,696.22,  of  which  $1,513.70  has  been 
paid.  Contracts  were  made  with  the  Texas  Telegraph  Company 
and  with  the  Arkansas  State  Telegraph  Company  for  building 
and  operating  lines,  and  sending  Government  dispatches  to 
distant  portions  of  the  Confederacy.  The  first  was  to  have  been 
completed  by  the  10th  of  December. 

There  are  in  the  Confederate  States  2570  })ost  roads  established 
by  law.  Of  these,  contracts  have  been  prepared  in  duplicate,  and 
sent  in  letters  of  instruction  to  Postmasters  for  execution  by  the 
contractors  on  1872  routes,  and  833  of  the  number  have  been  re- 
turned properly  executed. 

There  are  01  railroads  and  branch  roads  in  the  Confederate 
States  ;  of  this  number  only  15  have  entered  into  contracts, 
tracts.  Many  of  the  companies  have  waived  tlie  proposal  to  con- 
tract for  the  present,  on  one  or  another  ground.  Many  of  them 
decline  to  accept  the  classification  and  compensation  assigned  to 
their  roads,  and  intend,  if  they  can,  to  avoid  liability  and  the 
legitimate  control  of  the  Department  by  refusing  to  enter  into 
contracts,  while,  at  the  same  time,  they  signify  a  willingness  to 
perform  the  service,  but  under  some  protest,  and  generally  that 
they  must  have  higher  pay. 

The  whole  number  of  Postoffices  in  the  Confederate  States  on 
the  1st  of  June,  1861,  was  8,411.  Of  this  number  there  have  been 
discontinued  since  that  date,  183,  leaving  in  operation  8228 ;  num- 
ber established  since  the  1st  of  June,  72  ;  whole  number  now  in 
in  operation,  8300.  Number  of  postoffices,  of  which  the  names 
and  sites  were  changed,  47 ;  number  of  postmasters  appointed 
since  the  1st  of  June,  6261;    number  commissioned  by  the  Depart- 


m  THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES  AJLMANAC, 

ment  since  that  date,  4184 ;  whole  number  of  resignations  during 
tho  same  period,  950,  of  which  number  459  were  resignations  of 
appointments  conferred  by  this  Department,  and  491  were  resig- 
nations of  appointments  held  under  the  Government  of  the  United 
States.  There  are  110  route  agents  employed.  Seven  permanent 
and  one  temporary  special  agents  have  been  appointed. 

Estimate  of  the  probable  receipts  for  the  year  ending  June  30, 
1862,  compared  with  the  receipts  from  all  the  postoffices  now  in 
the  Confederate  States  for  the  fiscal  year  ending  June  30,  18G0 : 

Total  receipts  of  all  the  offices  in  1860. . . . . . .  .$1,517,530  00 

Total  receipts  of  all  the  offices  in  1801 1,091,012  00 

Showing  a  deficiency  of $420,524  00 

This  estimate,  however,  is  based  upon  the  returns  from  only 
2,922  postoffices.  and  the  receipts  must  necessarily  be  increased  by 
the  returns  from  the  remaining  4,024,  though  the  latter  are  gene- 
rally small  offices,  scattered  throughout  the  interior,  from  many  of 
which  the  receipts  will  bo  inconsiderable. 


THE  FINAKCIAL  CONDITIOIsr  OF  THE  CONFEDERACY. 

From  Richmond  ExaiMner. 

We  are  enabled  from  papers  before  Congress  to  prepare  a  suc- 
cinct and  interesting  statement  of  the  financial  condition  of  the 
country,  and  to  enlighten  the  public  as  to  the  amount  of  our  public 
debt;  its  classes;  the  receipts  of  the  Treasury  up  to  1st  August; 
and  the  probable  demands  that  will  be  made  upon  the  resources 
of  the  South  in  view  of  the  continuance  of  the  war  and  the  exi- 
gencies of  the  country  arising  therefrom.  We  distribute  this  iiT- 
tbrmation  under  appropriate  heads  : 

THE  PUBLIC  DEBT  OF  Tlf€,  Cbl'lTEDERACV. 

It  is  ascertained  from  otticial  data, '  furnished  by  the  Treasury 
Department,  that  the  whole  expenditures  of  the  Government  from 
the  commencement  to  the  1st  of  August  last,  amount  to  $347,212,- 
958.85.  It  should  be  stated,  however,  that  five  millions  of  the 
amount  charged  as  expenditure,  lias  been  paid  for  the  redemption 
of  deposit  certificates,  and  the  aggregate  above  stated  is  subject  to 
that  abatement  when  considered  in  the  light  of  actual  expenses. 

The  expenditures  up  to  the  first  of  August  are  as  follows : 

War  Department .\  -/^v  V-  ^*-^"-  •  •  •  •  •  $298,370,549  41 

Navy  Department *..  ;■?.&,  .;.*>'..-.  ..v. . .     14,005,777  80 

Civil  and  Miscellaneous ......:;.. .; .  *. .  .T. .~ 15,760,503  48 

1328,748,830  70 


AND  BEPPSITOEY  OF  USEFUL  KNOWLEDGE.        53 

To  Trhich  must  be  added  outstanding  requisitions  upon  the 
Treasury,  upon  which  warrants  are  not  yet  issued,  to  the  amount 
of  $18,524,128  15;    making    the    aggregate,    as    stated    above. 

$347,272,958.85. 

CLASSES  or   XnK   PrBLIC    DEBT. 

An  examination  of  our  funded  debt  account  will  show  that  a 
lamentably  small  portion  of  our  public  debt  exists  in  this  form. 
The  whole  amount  of  bonds  and  stock  issued  is  as  follows : 

Eight  per  cent,  stock  and  bonds if  41, 577,250 

Six  ''  call  ceptificfttes ,...32,784,400 

$74,361, C.jo 

Ttiis  statement  indicates  an  evident  indisposition  of  our  peopk 
to  make  investments  in  this  form,  and  furnishes  an  explanation  of 
much  of  that  disturbance  of  the  standard  of  value  and  enhance- 
ment of  prices  in  the  country,  which  liave  been  the  consequence 
of  the  large  and  disproportionate  issue  of  Treasury  notes. 

The  issue  already  made  of  Treasury  Notes  amounts  to  $183,244,- 
135  ;  leaving  authority  to  issue  $1 0,756, 8(T5. 

KECKIPTS  AT  THE  TREASUBT. 

•  The  receipts  at  the  Treasury  up  to  1st  August  from  all  the  va- 
rious sources  of  income  are  as  follows : 

From  Customs.,.-. $1,437,399  96 

"     Miscellaneous  sources 1,974,769  38 

,  '"    Loan,  act  of  Feb.  28th,  1861 15,000,000  00 

.'•       "        Aug.  19tb,  1861 22,613,34.5  61 

''    Call  Deposits  under  act  of  December  24,  1861  37,685,200  00 

"    Treasurv  Notes,  act  March  9th,  1861 2,021,100  00 

act  May  16,  1861 17,347,955  00 

vf         "  "         act  Aug.  19,  1861..... 167,764,615  00 

<«  Int.  "            ••         act  April  17,  1861 22,977,900  00 

"  $1  &  2         '^ 846,000  00 

'  V  Temporary  Loan  frOini  Bank^— biUance 2,625,000  00 

"  W^^  T^x 10,539,910  70 

•    -  ••  .  $302,555,196  00 

This  statement  of  receipts  is  short  of  the  whole  amount  of  the 
expenditures  of  the  Government  by  $44,717,762 ;  on  account  of 
which  the  Government  has  authority  to  issue  only  the  balance  of 
Treasury  Notes  $16,755,165,  leaving  $27,961,897  to  bo  provided 
for  by  Congress  in  a  further  extension  of  the  general  currency, 
unless  this  balance  can  be  paid  by  bonds  or  otherwise. 

FUNDS   TO   BE  EAISED   BY   THB  FIRST   O?  JANtTARY. 

It  is  -Bupposed  that  the  authority  to  issue  general  currency  notes 


54  THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES  ALMANAC, 

must  tibo  bo  oxtended  by  Congress  to  moot  th©  appropriations 
already  made  by  it  and  not  yet  paid,  and  also  the  further  appro- 
})riatious  to  be  made. 
The  appropriations  already  made   by  Congress, 

and  not  drawn  on  1st  of  Angnst,  amount  to. .  .$164,687,339  93 
The  estimates  submitted  by  the  various  Departments  of  the  ad- 
ditional supplies  required  to  make  good  deficiencies  and  to  support 
the  Government  to  1st  January  next,  are  as  follows  : 

For  the  War  Department $44,373,590  36 

".     ,€ivilList ..»,.v.v ....        386,607  39 

.-''  .,.  ^Miscellaneous . . . .' 102,899  38 

,•  •*  »■  *  i  y  \  :  

$44,863,091  13 
So  that  the  v/hole  amount  of  supplies  required  to 

l^t  January  presents  a  total  of .$209,550,487  06 

Congress  is  left  to  determine  the  best  modie  of  raising  this 
sum,  and  as  there  seems  but  little  prospect  of  raising  the  money 
by  a  sale  of  bonds  or  stock,  a  resort  to  Treasury  notes  seems  to  be 
all  that  will  be  left  to  its  discretion. 

INTEREST   BEAElXa   NOTEB. 

The  experiment  of  diminishing  the  quantity  of  circulation  by 
interest-bearing  notes  and  deposits  on  call,  is  said  to  have  been 
very  successful,  and  is  likely  to  be  enlarged  as  a  relief  from  excess  in 
the  quality  of  the  national  currency,  which,  as  it  exceeds  the  usual 
business  wants  of  the  community,  must  be  productive  of  high 
prices  without  relation  to  the  actual  value  of  the  currency. 

It  is  understood  that  the  interest  notes,  although  current  to  a 
certain  degree,  have  been  generally  withdrawn  from  circulation, 
on  account  of  their  value  as  temporary  investments.  Most  of  them 
have  been  taken  under  the  belief  that  the  interest  would  be  paid 
like  other  interest,  and  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  has  encour- 
aged this  belief  by  a  recommendation  to  Congress  that  the  inter- 
est should  be  paid  annually. 

PKOSPECTS  OF  ANOTHER  WAE  TAX — PAYMENT  BY  THE  STATES,  &C. 

It  is  supposed  that  Congress  will  be  under  the  necessity  of  pro- 
viding another  tax.  From  the  war  tax  returns  and  from  estimates 
as  to  such  States  as  have  not  yet  made  complete  returns,  this  fund 
may  be  set  down  at  seven  hundred  millions. 

The  War  Tax  has  been  paid  by  the  several  States  as  follows : 

North  Carolina : $1,400,000  00 

Virginia....- ,.........,»....'..... 2,125,000  00 

Louisiana.;^^:;.*:•-•.••*••"•••••••••■••••-•^ •  2,500,000  ao 

Alabama..  r;?/-.:'}r:.V::.'r:...^»'.?;-V?x:.. 2,000,000  00 

Georgia,, «..^.v 434,126  12 

Florida,  :^^y.v^.^f^.r:.^:'..i ._ .....•.:   225,374  n 

Mississippi ...........  ,\  . . .  -. .  ii  U^.%;. 1,484,467  67 

'    $10,168,967  90 


AND  liEPOSITOiJY  OF  USEFUL  JKKOWLEDGE.        55 

The  State  of  Georgia  haa  substantially  paid  in  the  balance  duo 
by  her,  and  the  State  of  South  Carolina  has  paid  the  whole 
amount  (lufe  by  her  into  the  Treasury,  in  the  form  of  six  per  cent, 
call  certiiicates.  But  as  the  final  issetf lenient  has  not  yet  taken 
place,  the  certificates  have  not  as  yet  been  delivered  up,  and  the 
accbimfe  is  not  yet  closed.  The  returns  from  the  States  of  Ala- 
bama, Louisiana  Mississippi,  Arkansas  and  Texas  hare  not  vet 
been  rendered  in  complete.  The  two  tb^roer  States  have,  ne^r- 
theless,  paid  thci'- taxes  in  advance.       '     .".'.[    "  ;*' 


LOIISIANA    AND  ALABAMA  ST  ATE, FINANCE- 
FINANCES  AND  PIIOGRESS. 

»-^ 

The  whole  debt  of  Louisiana  on  the  first  day  of  January  last  was 
composed  of  the  following  items  : 

Bonds  for  Citizens'  Bank i?4,297,3Ji3  )3:J 

Bonds  for  ConHoIidated  Association 1,101,200  00 

$5,808,533  83 
Railroad  subscrij)tioijs : 

Jackson  Railroad ..-i:i -:•-... $884, 000 

Opeh)usas  Railroad U'^.l .    041,000 

Yicksburg  and  Shreveportr. .... .'::  1  .v*^'.   260.000 

Grosse  Tete ....'...... : C  !". .' .  •.     70, 000 

- — 1,855,000*00 

"The  Railroad  Debts  : 

Old  Nashville  Bonds $483,00(1 

Mexican  Gulf  Railroad ." 100,000 

Port  Hudson  and  Cliuton^ •      9,000 

\    .  592,000  00 

Old  Seciwd  Municipality . '. /.  .$11)8,240 

X Charity  Hospital . . '.:..r.  -j^^i.  .J/:'^:  125,000  . 

'     '  ■•':<  ■•:- -^-  .34>.3,240  no 

Juvenile  Scliool  Fund ..4  .i. i»vJfe5-29,00(r 

•Seminary  Fund .  - ..../.:.:   130.000 

—  GH5,000  00 

For  relief  of  Treasury '. 750,000  00 

Whole  Bond  Debt $0,583,773  i}3 

There  are  Trust  Fimds  for  which  the  State  is  liable, 

]iayableon  demand,  amounting  to. .  .;  .- 575,300  00 


Making  the  whole  State  debt' aboittv $10,150,074  02 


§6  THE  CO N'mEDERATE   STATES  ALMAIs^AC, 

The  total  receipts  into  the  Treasury  of  Louisiana  last  year,  in- 
cluding receipts  on  account  of  trust  funds,  were  $2,378,793  44; 
.the  expenditures,  $2,224,702  10. 

The  taxable  property  of  Louisiana  hns  increased  within  .ten  • 
years  from  $205,000,000  at  which  it  was  assessed  in  1850  and 
1851.  to  $420,000,000,  at  which  it  was  assessed  in  1800— an  increase 
of- $150,000,000.  The  rate  has  averaged  about  $15,000,000  per 
annum,  but  it  has  been  quite  irregular;  1853  was  assessed  at  near- 
ly $30,000,000  over  1852,  and  1850  $37,000,000  over  1855,  while 
the  estimated  excess  of  1800  over  1859  is  only  $4,000,000.  Th« 
increase  has,  however,  been  constant,  if  not  uniform, 

ALA-CAMA. 

The  bond  debt  of  our  State  is  $3,445— annual  interest  $185,820. 
The  domestic  debt  is  $2,582,178,  most  of  which  draws  interest, 
being  the  sixteenth  section  and  University  fund,  etc.  The  Legisla 
tnre  has  just  authorized  the  issue  of  $2,000,000  in  bonds,  the  issue 
of  $1,000,000  ill  Treasury  notes,  and  has  loaned  the  Southern 
Congress  $500,000.  The  balance  in  the  Treasury  on  the  1st  of 
January  last  was  $298,008;  nett  revenue  during  the  present  year 
estimated  at  $847,000— total  of  means,  $1,172,009.  Past  appro- 
priations due,  $000,050;  due  educational  fund,  $285,000;  State 
expenses,  $200,000— total,  $1,058,050.  Total  balance  estimated  to 
be  in  the  Treasury  at  the  close  of  the  present  year,  $200,274.  The 
expenses  of  the  present  military  preparations  of  the  State  are  not 
taken  into  the  above  estimates.  They  are  expected  to  be  met  out 
of  the  new  issue  of  the  State  bonds  and  the  issue  of  Treasury  notes. 
There  was  no  increase  of  taxes  by  the  last  Legislature,  although 
the  expenditures  were  largely  increased. 


NORTH  CAROLINA  AND    ARKANSAS  STATE  FINANCES 
AND  RESOURCES.  ,         , . 

Tlie  assessed  value  of  real  estate  in  North  Carolina  in  1815  was 
$53,521f613;  in  1830  this  value  had  actually  decreased,  and  in 
1850,  thirty-live  years  later,  it  had  only  increased  to  $55,000,000  ; 
but  in  1860  it  reaches  $120,000,000,  or  $70,400,000  more  than  1850. 
This  result,  the  Governor  believes,  comes  solely  from  the  internal 
improvements,  which  only  fairly  commenced  in  1850. 

The  public  debt  of  the  State  is  $9,129,505.  To  this  is  to  be 
added  $4,099,900,  for  which  the  public  faith  is  pledged  to  eertaki 
railroads.  Of  this  latter  sum,  about  $1,500,000  will  be  required 
within  two  years.  The  expenditures  of  the  two  next  years  are 
estimated  at  $728,424.70,  to  meet  which  the  estimate  of  receipts  is 
$1,720,425.00.  It  is  therefore  evident,  uot  only  that  there  need  be 
no  increase  of  taxea,  but  that  they  may  be  reduced. 


AND  REPOSITORY  OF  USEFUL  KNOWLEDGE.        57 

To  meet  the  principal  of  her  liabilities,  the  State  has,  in  stocks 
and  bonds  of  various  railroads,  canals  and  sinking  fund,  $7,633,140. 
The  sinking  faud,  from  \v]iich  the  public  debt  is  to  be  paid,  and 
which  is  made  up  of  dividends  of  stock  owned  bj  the  State,  and 
anj  accruing  balances,  now  amounts  to  $457,040,  and  for  the  last 
two  yeara  has  received  $419,570.  After  this  year,  the  Governor 
estimates  that  the  annual  addition  to  thisfuiid  will  be  not  less  than 
a  million  of  dollars,  to  come  from  railroad  dividends.  He  relies 
upon  the  roads  Deiug  ])rofitable,  because  having  been  built  by  slave 
abor,  their  cost  is  very  much  less  than  Xorthern  roads. 

DEBT    OF    ARKANSAS. 

I'he  payuKMiL  of  the  State  debt,  up  to  October  1st,  1840,  amount- 
ed to  ^2,341,090.17.  The  amount  of  outstanding  debt  on  account 
of  the  Bank  of  the  State  of  Arkansas  is  $1,098,717.50,  and  the 
liability  of  the  State  for  bonds  sold  by  the  Keal  Estate  Bank,  and 
interest  due  on  tliem,  was  $1,054,825.28  on  the  1st  of  October. 
There  is  Ijeside  an  additional  liability  for  ])rincij)al  and  interest  up 
to  tlie,  1st  day  of  October,  18C0,  $207,455.71  on  account  of  the 
$121,330.59  borrowed  ])y  the  bank  on  the  7th  September,  1840, 
upon  the  tive  hundred  bonds  of  the  State,  which  the  bank,  in  vio- 
lation of  law,  hypothecated  to  the  "North  American  Trust  and 
Banking  Company,'-  of  New  York.  This  company  sold  the  bonds 
and  placed  them  beyojid  the  control  of  the  State.  ,     -   .. 

The  State,  the  Governor  says,  lias  made  considerable  progress  in 
getting  out  of  debt,  and  in  a  few  years  will  ]^  entirely'so.  The 
whole  value  of  property  taxed^n  the  State  in  the  year  1852  was 
$42,900,000,  and- the  increase  during  the  subsequent  eight  years 
amounted  to  about  $1,000,000.  There  remained  in  the  Treasury  on 
the  1st  of  October  for  ordinary  expenses  $304,100  in  gold  and 
silver.  An  n4-)propriation  of  $130,000  out  of  the  five  per  cent,  ac- 
c'ruitig  from  tlies  sales  of  public  lands  is  .recommended  for  the  com- 
pletion of  the  Memphis  and  Little  Kock  Railroad,  and  of  the  Mis- 
sissippi, Ouachita  and  Red  River  Railroad.  The  attention  of  the 
Legislature  is  also  called  to  the  subject  of  public  education. 


IXEBT'AND  RESOURCES  OF  TllE  STATE   OF   VIRGINIA. 

The  receipts  for  the  fiscal  year  ending  September  30th,  1863, 
including  the  balance  oh  hand  at  the  commencement  of  that  year, 
amounted  to  $1,899,034.36.  There  was  expended  that  year  the 
sum  of  $1,895,002.23;  leaving  a  balafice  in  the  treasury  on  the  1st 
Oftober,- 1800,  of  $4,632.13.  ■"  \        '  '     "     . 

The  receipts  for  the  fiscal  yearending  Sept.  30th,  1801,"  includ- 
ing the  balance   on  hand  at  the   commencement  of  that  year 


58  THE  Op:>^FEDERATE   STATES  ALMANAC, 

amounted  to  $1,775,091,72.  There  Avas  disbursed  duriug  the  same 
period  tlie  sum  of  $1,766,871.29 ;  leaving  a  balance  on  hand  Ist  of 
October,  1861,  of  $8,220.43.       '"  ; 

The  investments  of  the  fund  in  stocks,  loans,  &c.,  other  thnn 
subscriptions  and  appropriations  to  internal  improvements,  amonht 
in  the  aggregate  to  $5,108,483.33. 

The  amount  of  bonds  of  corporations,  the  payment  of  the  inter- 
est and  the  principal  of  which  is  gnaranteed  -bj  the  Common- 
wealth, is  $2,035,805.  The  amount  heretofore  reported  was 
8,'898,500.  Since  the  last  regular  session  of  the  Legislature,  under 
an  act  passed  23d  March,  1860,  $1,862,695  of  the  guaranteed  bonds 
of  the  James  River  and  Kanawha  Company  have"  been  converted 
into  State  bonds.  The  interest  due  the  1st  day  of  July  last  on  the 
\fbnds  of  the  Chesapeake  and  Ohio  Canal  Company,  guaranteed  by 
the  State,  has  not  been  paid,  no  report  having  been  made  by  that- 
company  of  its  inability  to  pay  the  interest. 

The  amount  appropriated  by  State  subscriptions  to  joint  stock 
companies,  and  for  State  improvements,  upon  which  payineirts 
liave  been  made,  is  $40,642,189.88,  and  the  amount  paid  is  $35,- 
508,266.71,  leaving  a  balance  of  $5,133,923.47  yet  to  be  pai-d ; 
which,  added  to  $9,600,  the  amount  of  subscriptions  to  companies 
now  authorized,  on  which  no  i)aym.ents  have  been  made,  makes 
the  sum  of  $5,143,523.17. 

The  amount  authorized  to  be  subscribed  to  companies  of  whose 
organization  no  information  has  been  received,  is  $385,740,  which 
added  to  the  aggregate  amount  of  the  two  items  last  stated,  makes 
$5,529,263.17,  and  constitutes  a  contmgent  liability  of  the  Com- 
monwealth. *     ' 

Estimates  are  given  of  certain  an'd  probable  receipts  on  account 
of  the  revenue  of  the  fund  of  Internal  Improvement  for  the  fiscal 
years  ending  30th  September,  1862,  and  30th  September,  1863, 
after  deducting  the  estimated  charges  for  the  same.-  The  surplus 
for  the  year  1862  is  supposed  to  be  $238,759.39.-  and  that  for '1863, 
$258,759.39. 

The  amount  paid  out  of  the  Sinking  Fund  on  account  of  the  re- 
demption of  certificates  of  public  del)t  issued  prior  to  1st  January, 
1852,  in  the  tw^o  years  1860  and  1861,  is  $462,088.31,  and  the 
amount  paid  foi-  certificates  of  public  debt  purchased  for  an  invest- 
ment for  said  fund  in  the  two  years,  is  $581,012.11. 

The  aggregate  outstanding  .  debt,  consisting  of  registered  and 
coupon  bonds  in  the  hands  of  the  public  and  the  Commissioneirs  of 
the  Sinking  Fund  on  the  30th  September,  1861,  is  ascertained  to 
be  $34,806,824.32.  The  net'  increase  of  the^public  debt,  during  the 
last  two  fiscal  years,  is  $4,619,507.09  ;  wliich  increase  includes 
guaranteed  bonds  of  the  "Jame.s  Eiver  and  Kanawlia  Company 
changed  to  State  bonds,  ($1,862,095,)  armory  expenditures, . (|T04,'- 
500,)  and  subscriptions  to", railroad  and  other  improvement  c6m- 
panies. 


AND  EEPOSITOKY  OF  USEFUL  KNOWLEDGE.        59 

The  amount  of  public  debt  issued  prior  to  1st  January,  1852,  and 
now  outstanding,  is  $10,271;107.99,  and  is  called  the  old  debt — 
that  created  sinpe  the  1st  of  January,  18G2,  amounts  to  $24;538,- 
710,38,  and  is  calle<l  the  new  debt.  The  Commissioners  of  the 
Sinking  Fund  have  advertised  to  redeem,  on  the  31st  D<^cember, 
!^0,614.DG  of  the  above  public  debt. 

The  aggregate  amount  of  tlie  funds  "and  resources  of  the  Com- 
monwealth is  $-13,^80, 70*4. lU  ;  of  which  amount  $8,120,805.90  are 
productive  of  a  revenue  equivalent  to  about  four  and  one-half  per 
cent.  The  remainder  or  unproductive  portion  consists  of  bonds 
and  loans,  whieh  are  more  or  less-  available  and  secured  by  mort- 
gages, &c.,  and  stocks  in  impTOvements  not  completed,  and  also  in 
improvements  completed  wfeich  yield  no  iJividend. 


IIOG  STATISTICS. 

The  following  comparative  statement  of  the  nuoiber  of  hogs 
raised  in  all  the  States  and  Territories  in  1850,  shows  that  the 
slave  States  raised  20,715,805,  against  $9,601,439  in  the  free  States 
and  Territories  combined. '  These  statistics,  it  will  be  observed, 
were  compiled  previous  to'  the  secession  of  Missouri  and  Ken- 
tucky : 

NUMBER   OF    llOOa  IX   THE    SOTJTHEEN    COXJEDEEACY. 

Vtrginia  ; '. $1,630,743 

North  Carolina ._ :    ^1,812,813 

'•South  Carolina *1,065,503 

Georgia 2,168,617 

Florida ^ 299,543 

Alabama 1,904,540 

Mississippi 1,582,734 

Louisiana . . , 597,301 

Texas 084,514 

Arkansas, 836,727 

Tennessee, 3,104,800 

Total ■ : 15,796,835 

DOliBTFUL    BOEDER    STATES. 

Maryland -. '. 352,911 

District  of  Columbia 1,635 

Kentuck-y •. * 2,861,163 

Missouri : 1,702,625 

Total , .' 4,918,334 

Total  number  of  hogs  raffed  in  all  the  old  United  States 

in  1850 30,816,608 


60 


THE  001>rFEDERATE  STATES  ALMANAC, 


By  this  it  appears  that  in  1850  there  were  ia  the- 

Confederate  States 15/796,835 

Doubtful  Border  States,  (Maryland,  Kentucky,  Missouri, 

Delaware  and  District  of  Columbia ,  ....  4,918,334 

All  the  Slave  States 20,715,835 

Free  States  and  Territories, 9,602,439 

miauce  in  favor  of.  Slave  States 11,113,T30 


RAILROADS  IN  THE  SOUTH. 

'  The  following  tables  from  data  given  in  the  Railroad  Journal; 
and  the  published  returns  of  the  late  census,  showing  the  miles  of 
railroad  in  operation  in  each  State,  and  their  cost  with  equip- 
ments, and  the  area  of  territory  of  each  State  : 


SouTHEiiN  States. 


Miles  of  ■ 
Railroad 
in  opera- 
tion. 


Alabama 

Arkansas 

Delaware 

Florida 

Georgia . . . : 

Kentucky  

Louisiana   

Maryland  and  Dist.  of  Columbia. 

Mississippi 

Missouri 

Korth  Carolina , 

South   Carojina ..'......' 

Tennessee 

Texas , 

Virginia 

New  Mexico  and  Indian  Territory 


798.6 

38.5 

47.'9 

289.8 

1,241.7 
458.5 
419.0 
833.3 
365.4 
723.2 
770.2 
807.3 

1,062.3 
284.5 

1,525.7 


Totals 9,665.0  $^79,5.33,065  1,283,850 


ObsJ,  with 
eqiiipment. 


$20,975,639 

1,130,110 

2,345,825 

6,368,699 

25,687,220 

13,852,062 

16,073,270 

41,526,424 

9,024,444 

31,771,116 

13,698,469 

19,083,343 

27,348,141 

•7,578,943 

43,069,3^0 


Area,  m 
sq.  miles. 


50,77^ 
52,19'8 
2,120 
59,268 
58,000 
37,680 
41,346 
11,070 
47,151 
65,037 

•  45,500 
34,000 
44,000 

274,357 
61,352 

400,000 


Am)  REPOSITORY  OF  USEFUL  KNOWLEDGE. 


61 


(JENSUS    OF    1860. 


States. 


Alabama 

Arkansas 

California. . . .  .. 

Connecticut  

Delaware 

Florida 

Georgia 

Illinois , 

Indiana 

Iowa.. 

Kansas. . ...... 

Kentucky 

Lduisiaua 

Maine. .' 

Maryland * 

Massachusetts. . 
Mississippi. . . .  ^ 
Missouri. ...  ...: 

Michigfin 

Minnessota 

New  Hampshire 
New  Jersey . . : . 

New  York 

North  Oarolina. 

Ohio 

Oregon 

Pennsylvania . . . 
Rhode  Island . . . 
South  Carolina . 

Tennessee 

Texas . .  .^ 

Vermont • . 

Virginia. .  .... 

Wisconsin. . ..  . 


Census  of  1860. 


Whites. 


529,164 
324,324 
380,015 
460,151 
110,420 
78,686 
595,097 

1,711,758 

1,350,479 
674,948 
107,110 
930,223 
376,913 
628,276 
599,846 

1,231,065 
354^699 

1,058,352 

749,112 

■  162,022 

326,972 

672,031 

3,887,542 
661,586 

2,389,599 
5^,464 

2,906,370 
174,621 
301.271 
834,063 
420;  651 
315,116 

1,105,196 
775,87a 


Slaves. 


435,132 
111,104 


1,798 

61-,  75  3 

462,230 


22^,490 
332,523 

87,188 

436,696 
114,555 


331,081 


402,541 

275,784 
180,388 


490,^87 


Population  of  States,     -     -  27,185,109  3,949,557  31,134,666 


TotaL 

964,296 

435,427 

380,015 

460,151 

112,218 

140,439 

1,057,327 

1,711,758 

1,350,479 
674,946 
107,110 

1,155,713 
709,433 
628,276 
687,034 

1,231,065 
791,395 

1,173,317 
749,112 
162,022 
326,072 
672,031 

3,887,542 
992,667 

2,339,599 
52,464 

2,906,370 
174,621 
703,812 

1,109,847 
601,039 
315,116 

1,596,083 
775,873 


62  THE  CONTEDERATE  STATES  ALMANAC, 

'CENSUS  OF  1860.  . 


Tebeitoeies. 


Population  of  States , 

Colorado '.  .  .  . 

Dakotah •. 

Nebraska 

Nevada ...• . 

New  Mexico 

Utali 

AYashington ; .  . 

District  of  Columbia 


Census  of  1860. 


Whites. 


27,185,10^) 

34,197 

4.839 

28,832 
6,587 
<)3,517 
40,260 
11,578 
71,895 


rotal  Population 27,477,090  3,962,801131,429,891 


Slaves. 
3,949,557 

10 

24 
29 

3,181 


Total. 


31,134,006 
34,197 
4,839 
28,842 
6,857 
93,541 
40,295 
11,578 
75,076 


COTTON  SUPPLY  AND  CONSUMPTION   OF  EUROPE. 

The  following  table  shows  the  Import,  Consumption  and  Stocks 
in  the  whole  of  Europe  for  the  years  1859  and  1800,  and  is  com- 
piled from  the  Annual  Report  of  Messrs,  Stolterfoht,  Sous  &  Co., 
Liverpool: 

1800.  1859.- 

Stock,  Jan.  1,  bales...                       571,000  557,000 
Import  to  31st  Dec. . . . 

Great  Britain 3,038,000  2,829.000 

France *  685,000  430,000 

Continent  (direct)'. .    479,000—4,582,000  588,000—3,853,000 

Total  supply 5,103,000  ^4,410,000 

Do.  Stock,  Dec.  31..  .  782,000  571,000 

Delivered  for  cons'n .  .      '    ^  4,321,000                        3,829,000 

Sources  of  Supply. 

Confederate  States.  .3,648,000  3,0.80,000—3,803,000 

Brazil 100,000  130,000 

West  Indies 47,000  *            30,000 

East  Indies 573,000  514,000 

Egypt 1,580,000—4,532,000     149,000—  3,853,000 

The  whole  Cotton  crop  of  tlie  Confederate  States  in  1800  was 
4,697,926  bales.  The  total  exports  of  cotton  for  the  same  year 
was  4,625,725  bales.  Of  this  amount  England  received  2,254,400 
bales. 


Am)  REPOSITORY  OF  USEFUL  KNOWLEDGE.        63 

The  whole  crop  for  the  year  1861  was  3,699,926  bales.  The 
total  exports  to  foreign  ports  for  the  same  year  was  3,764,341 
bales.  Of  this  amount  England  received  1,998,467  bales.  Eng- 
land derives  a  revenue  of  $350,000,000  per  annum  from  American 
cotton." 

The  cotton  fields  of  the  Southern.  States  embrace  an  area  of 
500,000  square  mjles,  and  the  capital  invested  in  the  cultivation  of 
the  plant  amounts  to  $900,000,000.  Seventy  years  ago,  the  ox- 
ports  of  our  cotton  were  only  420  '  bales — not  one-tenth  of  the 
amount  furnished  by  several  countries  to  England.  Xow,  the 
South  furnishes  five-sevenths  of  the  surplus  cotton  prcTduct  of  the 
entire  world. 


PLACES  AKD  TIMES  OF  HOLDING  THE  CIRCUIT  COURTS 
IN  THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES  OF  AMERICA. 

ALABAMA,  Mobile,  2d  Monday  in  April  and  4th  Mon.  in  Dec.     * 

ARKANSAS,  Little  Rock,  2d  Mendayin  April. 

GEORGIA,  N.  Dist.,  Marietta,  2d  Monday  in  March  and  Sept. 

GEORGIA,  S.  Dist.,  Savannah,  2d  Mon.  in  April— Milledgevillle, 
Thursday  after  1st  Monday  in  November. 

KENTUCKY,-  Frankfort,  3d  Monday  in  May  and  October. 

LOUISIANA,  New  Orleans,  4th  MOu.  in  April  and  1st  Mon.  in 
November.    '  • 

MISSISSIPPI,  Jatkson,  ist  Monday  in  May  and"  November. 

MISSOURI,  St.  Louis,  Ist  Monday  in  April  and  (special)  Oct. 

NORTH  CAROLINA,  Raleigh,  first  Monday  hi  Jnue  and  last 
Monday  in  Nov. 

SOUTH  CAROLINA,  Charleston,  first  Monday  in  April;— Colum- 
bia, 4th  Monday  in  November. 

TENNESSEE^  M.  Dist.,  Nashville,  3d  Mo"n.  in.  April  and  Oct.      - 

TENNESSEE,  E.  Dist.,  Knoxville,  3d  Monday  in  May  and  4th 
Monday  fn  November. 

TENNESSEE,  W.  Dist.,  Jackson,  first  Mon.  in  April  and  Oct-. 

VIRGINIA,  E.  Dist.,  Richmond,  first  Mpnday  in  May  and  fourth 
'  Monday  in  November.  .  ■ 

VIRGINIA,  W.  Dist.,  -Letvisburg,  first  Monday  in  August. 

PLACES^  AND'TIMES  OF  HOXDING  THE  DISTRICT 
COURTS. 

ALABAMA,  N.  Dist.,  Hyntsville,  second  Monday  in  May  and 

November. 
ALABAMA,  M.  Dist.,  Montgomery,  fourth  Monday  in  May  and 

November. 
ALABAMA,  S.  Dist.,  Mobile,  fourth  Monday  in  April  and  second 

Monday  after  4th  Monday  in  November. 


64  THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES  ALMAKAC. 

ARKANSAS,  E.  Dist.,  Little  Rock,  first  Monday  i  n  Apriland 
October.  .    .    .     • 

ARKANSAS,  W.  Dist.,  second  Monday  in  May.  and  November.    ' 

FLORIDA,  N.  Dist.,  TaUaliassee,  1st  Monday  in  January,  Apala- 
cbicola,  first  Monday  in  Februai-y  ;  -Pensacola,  first  Monday 
in  March;  St.  Augustine,  first  Monday  in  April. 

FLORIDA,  S.  Dist.,  Key  West,  first  Monday  in  May  and  Nov. 

GEORGIA,  N.  Dist.,  Marietta,  second  Monday  in  Mai-cli  and 
September.  '  .  '  .      • 

GEORGIA,  S.  Dist.,  Sayannab,  second  Tuesday  in  February,  May, 
August  and  November. 

KENTUCKY,  Frankfort,  third  Monday,  in  May  and  October. 

LOUISIANA,  E.  Dist.,  New  Orleans,  third  Monday  in  February^ 
May  and  November. 

LOUISIANA,  W.  Dist.,  Opelousas,  1st  Monday  in  August;  Alex- 
andria, first  Monday  in  September  ;  ShrevepQrt,  1st  Monday 
in  October;  Monroe,  1st  Monday  in  November;  St^  Joseph, 
-     1st  Monday  in  December.  ■ 

MISSISSIPPI,  N.  Dist,,  Pontot9c,  first  Monday  in  June  and 
December.  ' 

MISSISSIPPI,  S.  Dist.,  Jackson,  fourth  Monday  in  January  and 
June. 

MISSOURI,  E.  Dist.,  St.  Louis,  third  Monday  in  February,  Hay 
and  November.  .  . 

MISSOURI,  W.  Dist.,  Jefterson  City,  first  Monday  in  March  and 
September. 

NORTH  CAROLINA,  Edenton,  third  Monday  in  April  tind  Oct ; 
Newbern,  fourth  Monday  in  April  and  October ;  Wilmington, 
■first  Monday  after  fourth  Monday  in  April  and  October. 

SOUTH  CAROLINA,  E.  Dist.,  Charleston,  first  Monday  in  Janu- 
ary, May,  July  and  October. 

SOUTH  CAROLINA,  W.  Dist.,  Greenville  Court  House,  first  Mon- 
day in  August. 

TENNESSEE,  E.  Dist.,  Knoxville,  third  Monday  in  May  aAd 
fourth  Monday  in  November.  -     • 

TENNESSEE,  M.  Dist.,  Nashville,  third  Monday  in  April  and 
October. 

TEXAS,  E.  Dist.,  Galveston,  first  Monday  in  May  and  December; 
Brownsville,  first  Monday  in  March  and  October.    . 

TEXAS,  W.  Dist.,  Austin,  first  Monday  in  January  ^and  June; 
Tyler,  fourth  Monday  in  April  and  first  Monday  in  November. 

VIRGINIA,  E.  Dist., . Richmond,  12th  May  and  12th  November; 
Norfolk,  30th  May  and  1st  November.     ' 

VIRGINIA,  W.  Dist.,  Staunton,  first  May  and  first  October ; 
Wythe  Court  House,  fourth  Monday  in  May  and  October ; 
Charleston,  19th  April  and  19th  Septenaber;  Clarksburg, 
24th  March  and  24th  August;  Wheeling,  6th  April  and  6th 
September. 


AND  REPpSltORY  OF  USEFUL  KNOWLEDGE.        05 

SOME    OF    the"  principal    COLLEGES    AND  PROFES- 
SIONAL SCHOOLS  IN  THE  CONFEDERACY. 


NAME. 


Southern  University. 
University  of  North  Carolina. 
Franklin. 
South  Carolina. 
University  of  Alabama. 
University  of  Louisiana.   ■". 
Centenary  Collega. 
Mississippi  College. 

Howard 

Mercer  University. 

Oglethorpe. 

Davidson.  .  ^ 

University  of  Virginia. 

Randolph  Macpn. 

University  of  Nashville. 

University  of  Mississippi. 

■Stniple  Broaddus. 

Dolbear's  Commercial. 

East  Tennessee. 

Transylvania. 

Union. 

Medical  College.of  Alabama. 

St.  Louisr  ■ 


Grteensboro,  Ala. 
Chapel  Hill,  N.  C. 
Athens,  Ga. 
Columbia,  S.  C 
Tuscaloosa,  Ala. 
New  Orleans,  La 
Jackson,  La. 
Clinton,  Miss. 
Marion,  Ala. 
Penfield,  Geo. 
Milledeeville,  Geo. 
Mecklenburg,  N.  C. 
Charlottesville,  Va. 
Bqydon,  Va. 
Nashville,  Teun. 
Oxford,  Miss. 
Centre  Hill,  Miss. 
New  Orleans,  La. 
Knoxville,  Teim. 
Lexington,  Ky. 
Murfreesboro",  Tdnn. 
Mobile. 
Sti  Louis,  Mo. 


2i,ono 

18,250 

21.000 

12,000 

5,300 

3,750 

•  3,000 
8,700 

18,250 
21,000 
30,000 
8,080 
3,66C 

•  ,%0 


8,00fJ 
14,000 
4,300 

12.2000 


Commencement  of  Sessi  on. 


First  Thursday  in  June. 
First  Wednesday  in  August 
First  Monday  in  December. 
First  Thursday  in  July. 
Last  Thursday  in  July. 
July. 

Last  Thursday  in  July. 
Last  Thursday  in  June. 
Fourth  Wednesday  in  July 
First  Wednesday  in  Aug. 
First  Thursday  in  June. 
June  29th 

Fourth  Thursday  in  June. 
Last  Thursday  in  June. 
Not  in  session  at  present. 
Lftst  Tliursday  in  July. 
Constautlyin  session. 
First  Wednesday  in  July. 
Last  Thursday  in  June. 
First  ^^'ednesday  in  July. 


THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES  ALMANAC, 


Dim  OF  THE  WM  FOR  ^EPIMTIOI. 

{Contunied from  C  S.  Almanac,  foi'  1862.) 

18  6  2. 

January  1,  Engagement  at  Fort  PickenfT,  The  Federals,  in 
command  at  Fort  Pickens,  opened  fire  on  a  Confederate  vessel  in 
the  bay.  Col.  Anderson,  being  in  command  of  the  Confederates, 
promptly  opened  his  batteries  on  Fort  Pickens.  The  firing  lasted 
nearly  half  a  day.     ]S[o  casualties  reported  by  the  Confederates. 

Battle  near  Port  Royal  river  South  Carolina.  The  Federals 
advanced  up  Port  Royal  river  and  gave  battle  to  the  Confederates, 
after  a  brisk  fight  the  Federals  driven  back  defeated.  Federal 
loss  17  killed  9  wounded.  Confederate  loss  8  killed  15  wounded. 

January  4.  Judge  Hemphill,  of  Texas,  died  in  Richmond, 
Va. 

January  5.  Skirmish  at  Hanging  Rock,  near  Romney,  Va. 
Confederate  loss,  5  killed  and  7  captured. 

January  6.  French  man-of-war  approached  Ship  Island  under 
a  neutral  flag  for  the  purpose  of  business  with  the  French  Con- 
sul at  New  Orleans,  and  was  fired  into  by  the  Federal  vessel.  An 
apology  soon  made. 

January  8.  Skirmish  on  Silver  Creek,  Mo.-  Confederates 
defeated. 

January  9.  Col.  Lubbock,  of  the  Texas  Rangers,  died.  Burn- 
side  expedition  left  Annapolis, 

January  10.  Battle  of  Middle  Creek,  near  Prestonburg,  Ky. 
The  Confederate  forces  under  Gen.  Humphrey  Marahali  was 
attacked  by  the  Federals.  The  Federals  severely  defeated.  Gen. 
Marshall  in  his  official  report  says  : 

"My  loss  in  the  action  of  the  10th  irist.,  ia  accurately  stated  at 
10  killed  and  14  wounded.  The  loss  of  the  enemy  was  severe, 
estimated  by  the  officers  of  my  command,  who  had  an  opportunity 
to  see  them  dead,  at  over  200  killed  and  more  than  that  wounded. 
The  enemy  had  some  4,500  or  5,000  men  on  the  field,  and  at 
least  500  cavalry  (for  that  number  was  counted.)  Ihad  some 
1,600  men  fit  for  duty  and  present  on  the  field.     He   engaged 


AND  REPOSITORY  OF  CSEFUL  KNOWLEDGE.        67 

probably  2,500  or  3,000  of  his  men  ; '  I  about  900  or  1,000  of 
mine.".-. .  .Senators  Johrison  and  Polk,  of  Mo.,  expelled  from  U. 
S.  Senate,  charged  with  t^easep  to  the  Government. 

January  .12-13.  Burnside  expediti&n  left  Old  Point,  and 
caUght  in  a  sftccession  9f  damaging  storms  before  reaching  Hat- 
teras.  * 

January  14.  Secretary  Cameron,  of  the  Lincoln  Cabinet, 
resigns,  and  is  succeeded  by  Stanton,  of  Pa.,  as  Secretary  of 
War.  •'  '  _ 

January  15.  The  Federal  gun  boats  made  an  attack  on  Fort 
Henry,  Tennessee*  river,  and  retired  without  doing  any  damage 
to  tlie  Fort.  .  ♦     .        .  '  ' 

January  16.  Battle  near  Ironton,  3Io.  Confederate  troops 
under  Jeff,  Thompson,  drove  the  enemy  towards  Pilot  Knob. 

January  17.    ^Ex-President  Tyler,  died  in  Richmond,  Va. 

January  19.  Battle  at  Fishing  Creek,  or  Mill  Springs,  Ky, 
The  Confederate  forces,  under  command  of  Gen.  Crittenden  and 
Zollicoffer,  advances  from  their  entrenchments  and  attack  the 
Federals  under  Gens.  Thomas  and  Schoepf.  The  Confederates 
were  repulsed  and  Gen.  Zofficeffer  killed.  His  death  is  thus 
described :  ' 

Soon  after  the  fight  began,  pot  far  from  the  entrenchments  of 
the  enemy  on  Sunday  morning,  Geff.  Zollicoffer  mistook  a  regi*- 
ment  of  Kentuckians  for  one  of  his  own  command.  He  rode  up 
very  near  the  Colonel.  The  first  intimation  he  had  of  his  position 
was  received  when  it  was  too  late.  "There's  old  Zollicoffer," 
cried  out  several  of  the  regiment  in  front  of  him.  "Kill  him  I" 
and  in  an  instant  their  pieces  were  leveled  at  his  person.  At 
that  moment  Henry  M.  Fogg,  aid  to  Gen.  Zollicoffer,  drew  his 
revolver  and  fired,  killing  the  person-  who'  fif.st  recognized  Gen. 
Z.  With  the  most  perfect  coolness,  (jrcn.  ^.  aiDproached  to  the 
head  of  the  enemy,  and  drJlwing  his  sabre  cut  the  head  of  the 
Lincoln  Colonel  from  his  shoulders.  As  soon  as  done,  twenty 
bullets  pierced  the  body  of  our  gallant  leader,  and  Gen.  Zollicof- 
fer fell  from  his  horse  a  mangled  corps.' 

The  Confederate  force  engaged  wa»  only' 4,700  while  the 
Federals  numbered  14,000.  Confederate  loss  was  114  killed, 
102  wounded  and  45  taken  prisoners.  Federal  loss,  92  killed, 
194  wounded. 

January  22.  A.  brisk  skirmish  took  place  near  Boston,  Ky. 
The  Federals  were  badly  'whipped  and  los^  S  killed  and.  5"  woim- 
ded.     Confedcrato  loss,*3 'Tvounded. 

January  27.    -Reported  fight* at  James  Island,  Fla.    6ixty 


68  THE  OOOTEDEBATE  STATES  ALMANAC, 

Federals  reported  killed  and  35  captured.   •  Confederate   lo^/'lS 
killed  and  wounded. 

January  29,     Reported  skirmish  near  Occoquan,  A^a.     Nine. 

Texans  killed  and  1  wounded Naval  engagement  near  Fprt 

Pulaski,  Ga.     No  lives  lost. 

January  30.     The  state  of  affairs   in    the    North   is  thus  des-  ■ 
cribcd : 

The  most  candid  of  the  Northern  people  confessed  their  dis- 
appointment, especially  with  reference  to  two  topics — the  integ- 
rity of  the  slave  population  and  the  tremendous  amount  of  resis- 
tance the  South  has  offered  to  the  resources  and  best  exertions  of 
the  North,  Expressions  opposing  the  prosecution  of  the  war 
were  every  day  becoming  more  open  and  more  careless  of  res- 
traint. It  was  commonly  said  that  the  Democratic  party  would 
soon  be  in  power  again  in  the  North,  iand  that  its  programme 
would  be  to  upset  the  whole  present  system  of  Yankee  govern- 
ment  and  deal  terrible  vengeance  upon  those  responsible  for  the 
consequences  of  the  war.  We  are  told  that  public  expressions 
were  more  than  once  heard  that  "Cameron  and  Welles  should  be 
hung,"  and  that  the  work  of  retribution  should  go  on  until  "every 
man  who  had  loaned  money  to  the  government  had  been  treated 
to  a  halter."  Kegrets,  at  once  pitiful  and  ridiculous,  were  lavished 
on  the  destruction  of  "the  Union." 

The  resignation  of  Cameron,  Lincoln's  Secretary  of  War,  was 
treated  with  congratulations  by  the  less  ultra  people  of  the  North; 
and  it  was  said  that  Welles'  resignation  would  soon  follow.  The 
"emancipationists"  were  excessively  annoyed,  and  were  showing 
the  most  infamous  exasperation  of  feeling.  The  pages  of 
Harper's  Weekly  were  adorned  with  scurrilous  cuts  and  illustra- 
tions given  of  an  exasperated  policy  of  conquest,  in  pictures  of 
Southern  ladies  "of  the  first  families"  delving  atwash  tubs  under. 
Massachusetts  task  masters. 

There  was  a  general  feeling  of  despair  at  the  financial  aspects 
of  the  war.  It  was  stated,  on  authority,  that  no  more  specie 
would  be  paid  out  of  the  Federal  Treasury  except  for  interests  on 
the  old  public  debt.  The  financial  programme  at  Washington 
was  understood  to  be  an  additional  issue  of  demand .  notes  to  the 
amount  of  a  hundred  and  fifty  to  two  hundred  millions  of  dol- 
lars, and  a  war  tax  to  the  amount  of  a  hundred  and  fifty  millions; 
although  it  was  estimated  in  well-informed  quarters  that  the  in- 
creased expenses  of  the  war  would  run  up  to  $1,000,000,000  a 
year.  All  private  loans  had  ceased,  and  the  full  comiug  of  crisis 
was  awaited  in  a  sort  of  dreary  despair.     The   newspapers  were 


AND  REPOSITORY  OF  USEFUL  KNOWLEDGE.        69 

endeavoring  to  animate  confidence,  but  the  influence  of  the  press 
in  the  North — owing  to  its  long  course  of  deception  in  the  war — 
had  positively  expired. 

February  1.  Skirmish  at  Bloomery,  Western  Ya,  A  large 
party  of  Federals  surprised  and  captured  45  Confederates.  The 
Federals  lost  lo  killed  and  wounded.  The  Federals  elated  with 
their  success,  committed  great  outrages  on  the  inhabitants  of  the 
neighborhood. 

February  4-5-6.  Attack  and  capture  of  Fort  Henry,  Tennes- 
see river.  The  Fort  was  attacked  by  Federal  gun  boats,  and  a 
fore  of  10,000  men  under  Gen.  Grant.  Gen.  Tilghman  made  a 
brave  defence,  but  was  forced  to  surrender  before  an  overwhelm- 
ing force  ;  two  gun  boats  were  badly  damaged.  Confederate  loss 
was  lo  killed,  13  wounded,  and  Gen.  Tilghman  with  57  men 
were  taken  prisoners.  Gen.  Hciman  with  3.000  men  succeeded 
in  making  a  safe  retreat  to  Fort  Donelson.  Federal  loss  45  killed, 

(32  scalded  to  death  on  one  gun  boat)  and  60  wounded Santa 

Fe,  New  Mexico,  evacuated  by  the  Federals  who  retreated  to  Fort 

Union Sixty  Federal  war  vessels  appeared  at  Roanoke  Island, 

North  Carolina. 

February  7-8.  The  Federal  gun  boats  ascend  the  Tennessee 
river  to  Florence,  Ala.,  creating  great  excitement  among  tne 
people  living  along  the  river.  Several  Confederate  Steamboats 
were  burned  and  destroyed  to  prevent  their  falling  into  the  hands 
of  the  enemy.  The  Federals  seized  on  a  quantity  of  Confederate 
stores  at  Florence;    after  committing  many  depredations,  the 

Federals  returned   with    their  boats    to   Paducah Battle  of 

Roanoke  Island,  North  Carolina.  The  Federals  lauded  10,000 
men  and  attacks  the  Confederate  batteries  and  captured  the 
Island.  Capt.  0.  J.  Wise  was  killed  and  2,437  Co.nfederates 
taken  prisoners.  Our  entire  loss  is  but  23  killed,  and  some  5S 
wounded,  while  that  confessed  to  by  the  foe,  and  reported  to  us 
by  one  of  the  party,  who  accompanied  Capt.  Wise's  body  home, 
was  35  commissioned  officers,  including  two  colonels,  and  175 
privates  killed,  and  between  300  and  400  wounded.  .  This  fact 
attests  more  strongly  than  language  could  do,  the  heroism  of  the 
defense.  Let  the  battle  of  Roanoke  Island  be  classed,  no  longer 
among  the  disasters  of  the  war  ;  rather  let  us  cherish  the  memory 
of  the  deeds  that  there  ennobled  our  arms,  and  shed  fresh  lustre 
upon  the  brilliant  historic  fame  of  the  Southern  volunteers.  The 
enemy  admit  300  killed  and  wounded,  while  our  estimate  of  their 
loss  is  from  400  to  600. 

February  7.  Rev.  R.  J.  Stewart,  of  St,  Paul's  Church,  Alex- 


70  THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES  ALMANAC, 

andria,  Va.,  was  arrested  by  Federal  soldiers  while  holding  ser- 
vices in  his  clmrch,  charged  with  being  a  secessionist,  and  for 
omitting  to  mention  the  name  of  the  President  of  the  United 
States  in  his  prayer.  He  refused  to  leave  the  church  and  was 
dragged  by  force  from  the  pulpit.   . 

February  lO.  Newspaper  oflSce  of  the  "  Local  News"  was 
destroyed  by  Federal  soldiers  in  Alexandria,  Ya.  Large  num- 
bers of  th.e  citizens  of  Alexandria  are  arrested  on  charge  of  con- 
spiracy  against   the   Federal   government Battle  at  Cobb's 

Point,  near  Elizabeth  City,  North  Carolina.  The  Federals  from 
Roanoke  Island  attack  the  Confederate  steamers  at  batteries. 
Commodore  Lynch  made  a  brave  defence,  but  was  forced  to 
retreat.  The  Federals  captured  7  Confederate  steamers  and  some 
army  stores,  guns,  &c.  Confederate  loss  6  killed,  3  wounded. 
Federal  loss  II  killed,  4  wounded. 

February  11,  Elizabeth  City,  North  Carolina,  partly  burned 
by  its  inhabitants  to  prevent  its  falling  into  the  enemy's  hands. 

February  12.  Edenton  and  Hartford,  North  Carolina,  occupied 
by  the  Federals. 

February  12.  Battle  of  the  trenches.  )  Battle  of  Fort  Donel- 
Ji'ebruary  13.  Battle  with  gun  boats.  >  son,  Cumberland  river, 
February  15.  Battle  at  Dover.  )  Tennessee 

The  fighting  at  Fort  Bonelson  was  the  most  bloody  and  despe- 
rate ever  witnessed  on  the  /:^merican  continent,  excepting,  per- 
haps, the  earlier  conquest  of  Mexico  by  the  Spaniards.  The 
fighting  commenced  on  Wednesday,  12th,  the  enemy  was  driven 
back  with  heavy  loss  ;  the  battle  of  the  13th  was  fought  mainly 
with  the  Federal  gun  boats.  Seven  boats  attacked  the  Fort.  The 
gun  boats  were  entirely  defeated  by  the  heavy  guns  at  the  Fort. 
Some  of  the  balls  passed  through  a  thickness  of  25  inches  of  the 
iron  and  wood  casing  of  the  boats ;  42  Federals  were  killed  and 
wounded  on  the  boats.  The  main  fight  was  on  Saturda}^  when 
our  forces  marched  out  of  our  entrenchments  and  attacked  the 
enemy,  killing  not  less  than  lOOO,  capturing  7  pieces  of  artillery, 
250  prisoners  and  a  large  lot  of  small  arms,  blankets  and  knap- 
sacks. The  enemy  had,  with  a  large  force,  surrounded  us,  pre- 
paratory to  cutting  ofi"  our  communication  with  Clarksville  and 
Nashville.  This  was  the  cause  of  our  going  out  and  attacking 
them  on  Saturday.  The  result  of  the  fight  on  Saturday  made  us 
feel  triumphant.  About  sun  down  on  Saturday  wc  sent  ofi'  the 
sick,  wounded  and  prisoners  in  the  two  small  boats  we  had  at 
Donelson.  Early  in  the  night,  our  scouts  brought  up  the  infor- 
mation that  fourteen   steamboats  were  landing  fresh  troops  one 


AND  REPOSITORY  OF  USEFUL  KNOWLEDGE.        71 

mile  and  a  half  below  us.  Three  hours  after  our  cavalry  informed 
us  that  th€  enemy,  in  large  force,  had  again  surrounded  us,  occu- 
pying the  position  from  which  we  had  driven  them  in  the  morn- 
ing. 

The  complete  state  of  exhaustion  of  our  army,  and  its  manifest 
inability  to  make  or  sustain  another  attack,  determined  the  -sur- 
render. The  snow  was  six  inches  deep,  the  weather  severely 
cold,  and  our  men  had  been  working  and  fighting  for  several  days 
and  nights,  with  no  means  of  rest  except  when  they  found  in  the 
trenchments.  They  had  been  hurriedly  carried  there,  without 
their  tents  or  camp  equippage. 

Gens.  Pillow  and  Floyd  gave  up  their  command  to  General 
Buckner,  and  ignominously  left  the  Fort.  The  noble  General 
Buckner  refused  to  desert  his  men  and  was  captured  prisoner. 
As  an  evidence  of  the  desperate  character  of  the  contest,  the 
following  paragraph  is  copied  from  a  Federal  account  of  the 
battle . 

"  The  heaviest  loss  to  any  one  of  the  Federal  regiments  at  Fort 
Donelson,  was  the  11th  Illinois,  which  went  into  the  fight  with 
590  men  and  ofiicers,  and  came  out  witli  170.  Two  companies 
of  this  regiment,  company  K,  Capt.  Carter,  of  LaSalle,  went  into 
action  with  62  men,  and  came  out  with  nine  I  Company  H,  Capt. 
Contes,  of  Peru,  went  in  with  51  men  and  came  out  with  10. 
This  will  give  an  idea  of  the  hard  fighting  and  terrible  loss  sus- 
tained." 

The  Federal  loss  is  estimated  at  1,200  killed,  2,000  wounded 
and  270  captured  prisoners.  Confederate  loss  231  killed,  1,007 
wounded,  and  5,079  taken  prisoners. 

The  whole  amount  of  the  Confederate  force  on  first  day  of 
battle  was  nearly  13,829  men.  The  Federal  force  on  the  last  day 
amounted  to  nearly  55,000  men. 

February  14.  Skirmish  near  New. Concord,  Ky,  Five  Fede- 
rals killed,  several  wounded. 

February  15.  Bowling  Green,  Ky.,  evacuated  by  Gen.  John- 
son and  Confederate  forces. 

February  16.  Tennessee  Rolling  Mills  burned  by  the  Federals, 
....  Skirmish  near  Moorfield,  Va.  Col.  Ashby  made  a  success- 
ful attack  on  a  large  force  of  Federals,  killing  many  and  driving 
them  from  their  position. 

February  17.  Skirmish  near  Galveston,  Texas.  A  large  force 
of  Federals,  in  attempting  to  make  a  landing  near  Galveston 
Bay,  were  surprised  by  the  Confederates  and  driven  back  ;  seve- 
ral Fe4erals  wounded. 


•ra  THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES  ALMANAC, 

Gen.  Johnson  notifies  Gov.  Harris  that  he  cannot  hold  the  city  , 
of  Nashville  against  the  Federals.     Gov.  Harris  causes  the  State 
Archives  to  be  removed  to  Memphis.     The  Governor  and  meitt- 
bers  of  the  Legislature  leave  Nashville  for  Memphis. 

February  17-18-19.  Great  panic  in  Nashville,  Tenn.,  caused 
by  the  fall  of  Fort  Donelson  and  the  threatened  occupation  of  the 
city  by  the  Federals.  Great  amount  of  army  stores  and  provi- 
sions ($500,000  worth)  destroyed,  to  prevent  its  falling  mto  the 
enemy's  hands.  All  the  bridges  and  fortifications  destroyed. 
Great  numbers  of  people  leave  the  city. 

February  20.  Winton,  N.  C,  captured  by  the  Federals.  Con- 
federate loss,  7  killed  and  5  wounded. 

February  22.  Jefierson  Davis  inaugurated  President  of  the 
Confederate  States  for  the  first  regular  term  of  six  years. 

February  24.  Mayor  Cheatham  formally  surrenders  the  city  of 
Nashville  to  the  Federals. 

February  25.  Skirmish  near  Occuquan,  Ya.  Several  Yankees 
reported  killed. 

Febm^ry  26.  The  Federal  forces,  40,000  strong,  under  Gen. 
Buell,  occupy  Nashville,  Tenn. 

February  22.  Gen.  Johnson  falls  back  to  Stephenson  and 
Decator,  on  the  line  of  the  Memphis  and  Charleston  Railroad. 

March  1-2-3.  Skirmish  on  the  Tennessee  River,  near  Savan- 
nah, between  a  party  of  Louisianians  and  Federal  gun  boats.  The 
Federals  defeated,  22  killed,  45  wounded;  Confederate  loss,  7 
killed.  14  wounded. 

Invasion  of  the  Virginia  Valley.  Martinsburg  and  Charles- 
ton occupied  by  the  Federals,  under  Gen.  Banks. 

Skirmishing  near  New  Madrid,  Mo.,  between  the  advancing 
Federals  and  JeiF.  Thompson's  forces ;  20  Federals  reported 
killed  and  10  captured. 

Columbus,  Ky.,  evacuated  by  the  Confederate  forces.  All  the 
Confederate  property  removed  to  New  Madrid  and  Island  No.  10. 

City  of  Pensacola  and  the  Confederate  Forts  partly  evacuated 
by  the  Confederates. 

Gen.  Bragg  leaves  Mobile  for  Memphis,  Tenn.  Fort  Pickens 
partly  evacuated  by  the  Federals. 

Brunswick,  Geo.,  and  Fernandina  captured  by  the  Federals, 
Commodoie  Dupont  takes  possession  of  all  Confederate  property. 
No  resistance  offered  by  the  Confederates. 

Columbus,  Ky.,  occupied  by  the  Federals,  under  General  Cul- 
lum. 

Martial  law  declared  in  Richmond,   Va.    John  M.  Botts  and 


AND  REPOSITORY  OF  USEFUL  KNOWLEDGE.        78 

several  prominent  Union  men  arrested  in  Eiohmond  for  aiding 
the  enemy. 

March  5.  Martial  law  declared  in  Memphis,  Tenn. 

General  Beauregard  takes  command  of  the  army  of  the  Mis- 
sissippi.    Headquarters  at  Jackson,  Tenn. 

March  5-6.  Skirmish  near  New  Creek,  Western  Virginia. 
Col.  Ashby  made  a  successful  attack  on  a  large  force  of  Federals, 
routing  them  and  capturing  40  prisoners.  Confederate  loss,  3 
killed. 

March  21.  Battle  of  Valverde,  Arizona  Territory.  The  bat- 
tle was  fiercely  contested,  and  undoubtedly  the  severest  of  the 
present  war — as  desperate  as  any  on  record  for  the  amount  of 
men  engaged.  The  Confederate  forces  were  mostly  native  Tcxans, 
who  fought  with  all  their  well  known  courage  and  bravery,  cap- 
turing the  enemies  batteries  of  7  gnns,  at  the  point  of  the  bayo- 
net and  knife,  winning  a  glorious  victory  over  the  Federals.  Maj. 
Lockridge,  of  the  Confederates,  was  killed  while  leading  a  charge. 
Confederate  loss,  86  killed  and  156  wounded.  Federal  loss,  230 
killed,  200  wounded  and  500  captured  prisoners.  The  Confed- 
erate force  amounted  to  only  2,300 ;  the  Federals  were  6,000 
strong. 

Running  the  blockade.  Over  120  vessels  have  run  the  block- 
ade from  Southern  ports  since  March,  1861,  to  the  present  time. 
During  the  past  year  7  vessels  have  been  captured  by  the  Fede- 
rals in  attempting  to  run  the  blockade.  It  is  estimated  that  70 
vessels  have  entered  Southern  ports  during  the  same  time. 

The  great  debt  and  cost  of  the  war  to  the  Northern  govern- 
ment : 

"By  a  late  statement  of  the  chairman  of  the  committee  of 
Ways  and  Means  in  the  Federal  House  of  Representatives,  it  was 
shown  that  there  will  be  required,  in  order  to  pay  the  outstanding 
debts  of  the  treasury,  for  which  there  are  no  funds  on  hand,  and 
to  carry  on  the  war  until  the  next  session  of  Congress,  upwards 
of  seven  hundred  millions  of  dollars.  The  aggregate  debt,  on 
the  1st  day  of  December  next,  will  be,  by  the  same  statement, 
$925,000,000.  But  Congress  must  also  provide  for  the  remain- 
der of  that  current  fiscal  year,  which  will  terminate  on  the  30th 
of  June,  1862.  Including  these  sums,  the  ofiicial  Federal  esti- 
mate is,  that  the  public  debt  will  amount  on  tbo  1st  of  July,  1863 
— only  sixteen  months  hence — to  $1,350,000,000. 

This  estimate  does  not  take  into  account  the  efiects  of  a  depre- 
ciated currency  upon  the  cost  to  Government  of  its  loans  in  bonds 
and  treasury  notes.     Many  additional  millions  must  therefore  be 


Y4  THE  COKFEDERATE  STATES  ALMANAC, 

added  to  the  aggregate  to  represent  correctly  the  debt  which  will 
have  to  be  redeemed,  at  "*ome  time,  unless  bankruptcy  and  repu- 
diation come  in  first,  with  only  a  reasonable  allowance  for  that 
excess  of  expenditure  over  estimates,  which  is  universal  at  AVash- 
ington  ;  the  Federal  debt  will,  by  the  middle  of  next  year,  reach 
fully  up  to  fifteen  hundred  millions  of  dollars," 

March  7.  McClellan  commences  moving  his  troops  from  Wash- 
ington to  the  Peninsula,  Va. 

March  6-7-8.  Battle  of  Elkhorn,  or  Pea  Ridge,  Ark.  A 
great  and  desperate  battle  was  fought  between  the  Federals,  under 
Generals  Curtis  and  Seigel,  with  a  force  of  20,000  men,  and  the 
Confederates,  under  Generals  Price,  McCulloch  and  VanDorn, 
with  14,000  men.  After  three  days  hard  fighting  the  Confede- 
rates withdrew  on  account  of  the  death  of  McCulloch.  Confede- 
rate loss,  169  killed,  431  wounded  and  200  taken  prisoners. 
Federal  loss,  390  killed,  900  wounded  and  300  captured  prison- 
ers* [From  Gen.  VanDorn's  official  report.]  Generals  McCul- 
loch and  Mcintosh,  of  the  Confederates  were  killed.  Gen.  Seigel 
of  the  Federals,  badly  wounded.  Thirty  Federals  were  scalped 
by  the  Confederate  Indians  in  the  battle, 

March  7.  Leesburg  evacuated  by  the  Confederates;  large 
amounts  of  Confederate  and  private  property  destroyed  to  prevent 
its  falling  into  the  enemy's  hand. 

March  8-9.  Naval  battle  in  Hampton  Roads,  near  Norfolk,  Va. 
The  new  Confederate  steamer  Virginia,  (late  Merrimac)  other- 
wise known  as  the  "Norfolk  Turtle,"  "Colossus  of  the  Roads," 
attacks  five  of  the  largest  Federal  blockading  ships.  The  Virginia 
was  assisted  in  the  attack  by  the  Confederate  gun  boats,  "Patrick 
Henry,"  "Jsmestown,"  "Yorktown"  and  "Teaser."  The  Vir- 
ginia won  a  most  glorious  victory,  having  destroyed  the  following 
war  vessels  :  Congress,  burnt.  430  men,  50  guns ;  Cumberland, 
sunk,  360  men,  22  guns  ;  Minnessota,  riddled,  650  men,  40  guns; 
St.  Lawrence,  peppered,  480  men,  50  guns ;  gun  boats  two  or 
three  disabled,  120  men,  6  guns  ;  Forts  silenced,  200  men,  20 
guns;  Ericsson,  150  men,  3  guns.  Total — men,  2890 — guns, 
230.  The  Virginia  also  engaged  the  Federal  iron  clad  vessel 
"Monitor."  The  encounter  was  a  drawn  battle,  both  vessels  re- 
tiring at  the  same  time.  The  Monitor  was  considerably  damaged. 
The  Virginia  suffered  only  a  trifling  loss  on  the  breaking  of  her 
iron  prow.  Federal  loss  estimated  at  700  killed,  wounded  and 
drowned      Confederate  loss,  9  killed,  18  wounded. 

The  self  abnegating  heroism  of  Capt.  Buchanan,  commander 
of  the  Virginia  in  the  redent  memorable  conflict,  will  be  generally 


AND  REPOSITORY  OF  USEFUL  KNOWLEDGE.       75 

appreciated  when  it  is  known  that  his  younger  and  favorite  brother 
was  the  purser  of  the  frigate  Congress,  at  which  the  fire  of  the 
Virginia  was  most  pertinaciously  directed,  and  is  supposed  to  have 
perished  on  beard  of  her. 

March  1.  Skirmishing  near  Charleston,  Va.,  the  federals  rout- 
ed and  several  killed,  and  17  taken  prisoners. 

March  7-8-9.  The  Confederate  forces  evacuates  Centrevillc, 
Manassas  and  Occuquan,  and  falls  back  to  a  new  line  of  defence 
on  the  Rappahannock  River,  Va.  In  retiring  from  Manassas, 
everything  that  could  give  aid  and  comfort  to  the  enemy  was  de- 
stroyed ;  guns,  ammunition  and  stores  were  brought  off  in  good 
order ;  and  the  railroad  tracks,  both  that  leading  to  Manassas  Gap 
and  that  to  Orange,  torn  up.  The  continuation  of  the  former  to 
Mount  Jackson,  in  the  direction  of  Stun  ton,  will  also  be  torn  up 
as  fast  as  General  Jackson,  of  the  Army  of  the  Shenandoah,  re- 
tires to  the  mountains.  The  New  York  Post  says  the  retre.at 
from  Manassas  was  the- most  masterly  effort  in  ancient  or  modern 
warfare.  That  it  changes  the  character  of  the  war,  and  protracts 
the  contest  for  a  long  time. 

March  8.  Traffic  in  gold  and  silver.  Gold  and  silver  was  sold 
by  speculators  as  high  as  80  per  cent,  premium  in  New  Orleans, 
and  in  Memphis,  Tennessee,  gold  was  reported  to  have  been  sold 
at  140  per  cent,  premium.  Dealing  in  gold  and  silver  was  sup- 
pressed by  authority  in  New  Orleans. 

March  8-9.  Capturing  and  harrassing  the  enemy  near  Nash- 
ville, Tenn.  The  gallant  "  partizan  leader,"  Captain  Morgan,  if? 
making  himself  famous  in  exploits  ;  he  is  giving  the  enemy  great 
trouble.  During  a  late  skirmish,  there  were  sixty  Federals  cap- 
tured, also  a  large  amount  of  property  belonging  to  the  enemy. 

March  9.  Skirmish  near  Nashville,  Tenn.     Captain  Scott  made 
an  attack  on  the  Federals,  completely  routing  them ;  killing  thirty 
and  capturing  a  large  amount  of  guns,   ammunition,  &c.     Con 
federate  loss,  3  killed,  5  wounded. 

March  11.  The  Federal  army  occupies  Manassas,  Va.  On 
Tuesday  evening,  being  about  to  be  attacked  by  18,000  of  the 
enemy,  General  Jackson,  with  his  small  force  of  only  5000  fell 
back  from  Winchester,  and  stayed  that  night  about  four  miles 
from  that  town.  On  Wednesday  morning  lOOO  of  the  enemy 
took  possession  of  Winchester.  On  the  afternoon  of  Wednesday, 
Gen.  Shields'  column  advanced  toward  Newtown,  but  were  met 
and  driven  into  Winchester  by  Col.  Ashby's  command.  Be- 
fore evacuating  Winchester,  General  Jackson  succeeded  in  re- 
moving all  his  stores,  baggage,  etc.,  so  that  not  a  dollar's  worth 


76  THE  CONFEDERATE  Sff  ATES  ALMANAC, 

of  public  property  fell  into  the  hands  of  the  enemy.  Skirmish 
near  Cumberland  Gap,  Tenn,  The  Federals  were  severely  re- 
pulsed and  forty  taken  prisoners.  Confederate  loss,  2  killed  and 
1  wounded. 

March  12.  The  dark  days  of  the  Confederacy.  The  peaceably 
defensive  policy  of  the  Confederate  Government,  during  the  past 
six  months,  has  nerved  the  Federal  Government  to  redoubled 
exertions  in  the  scheme  of  conquering  the  South.  The  conse- 
quence to  the  Confederacy  has  been  the  loss  of  several  important 
battles,  reverses  and  loss  of  positions,  not  a  few  of  which  has  been 
owing  to  bad  Generalship  on  the  part  of  Confederate  commanders. 
The  timid  and  discontented  portion  of  the  Southern  people  see  in 
such  reverses  the  doom  of  the  South.  But  all  true  Southerners 
feel  confident  that  the  worst  has  come,  and  are  certain  of  glorious 
success  in  the  future.  A  new  spirit  of  energy  has  been  infused 
into  the  government,  and  the  army,  all  true  patriots,  are  resolved 
to  conquer  or  die  for  the  cause  of  freedom  and  their  rights. . . . 
Jacksonville,  Florida,  occupied  by  the  Federals,  who  erect  bat- 
teries. The  people  destroyed  part  of  the  city  before  surrendering 
to  the  Federals. . .  .Skirmish  near  Paris,  Tenn.  The  Confede- 
rates withdrew  their  pickets. 

March  12-13.  Skirmishing  at  Eastport,  Tenn.  The  Confede- 
rate batteries  attacked  by   the   Federal  gunboats :  no    damage 

done Attack  on  New  Madrid,  Mo.     The  Federals  advanced 

and  attacked  the  Confederates  at.  New  Madrid,  a  brisk  fight  took 
place,  during  which  the  Federals  were  repulsed  and  driven  back ; 
during  the  following  night  the  Confederates  suddenly  evacuated 
the  place,  as  it  was  expected  that  the  Federals  were  returning 
with  large  reinforcements  to  renew  the  attack.  The  Confederates 
left  behind  a  large  number  of  cannon,  guns  and  army  stores. 
Confederate  loss  during  the  fight  IG  killed,  9  wounded.  Federal 
loss  25  killed,  47  wounded. 

March  13.  Hon,  W.  L.  Yancey,  Confederate  minister,  arrives 
in  New  Orleans  from  Europe,  he  makes  a  speech  to  the  citizens 
of  New  Orleans,  during  which  he  said  that  "fie  came  back  con- 
vinced that  we  had  no  friends  in  Europe,  that  we  must  fight  the 
battle  alone,  and  rely  only  on  our  own  firm  hearts.". ..  .The 
Federals  landed  a  force  of  2,500  men,  and  attacks  and  capture 
the  Confederate  batteries  at  Newbern,  N.  C.  The  Confederates, 
who  numbered  only  700,  fought  bravely  before  surrendering. 
After  capturing  the  batteries  the  Federals  advanced  to  the  city  of 
Newbern  and  shelled  the  place,  before  the  women  and  children 
could  escape.     Confederate  loss,  45  killed,  55  wounded  and  202 


AND  KEPOSITORY  OF  USEFUL  KNOWLEDGE.        77 

takeu  prisoners.  Federal  loss  estimated  at  650  killed  and 
wounded. . .  .General  Lee  assigned  the  command  of  the  Confede- 
rate army  under  the  consent  of  President  Davis Andy  John- 
son, the  traitor,  arrives  in  Nashville;  Tennessee,  and  assumes  the 
office  of  Governor  under  Federal  authority.  Johnson  was  accom- 
panied by  his  fellow  traitors  Etheridge  and  Maynard. 

March  14.  General. Fremont  appointed  to  a  new  command  in 
the  West — "  The  Mountain  Department.". . . .  A  party  of  Con- 
federate cavalry  was  surprised  by  the  enemy  near  Cumberland 
Gap,  Tennessee.     Five  Confederates  killed  and  wounded. 

March  15.  Bombardment  of  New  Madrid  and  Island  No.  10 

commences The  Federal  Senate   has  passed  the  bill  for  the 

"occupation  and  cultivation  "  of  such  cotton  lands  as  the  Federal 
armies  may  acquire  in  the  South ....  They  are  going  to  take  the 
cotton  lands,  and  work  negroes  thereon  for  the  benefit  of  the  gov- 
ernment. It  is,  to  be  sure,  an  absurd  project  and  will  be,  when- 
ever attempted,  a  miserable  and  costly  failure.  It  ivS  a  Yankee 
scheme,  to  become  slaveholders  in  fact,  while  giving  the  slaves  a 
nominal  freedom;  to  work  them  by  agents,  underlings  and  dri- 
vers, without  one  motive  to  produce  that  kindly  humanity,  which 
is  the  glory  of  the  system  in  Southern  hands.  It  is  a  grand  na- 
tional sham,  which  has  in  it  all  tlfe  elements  of  cruelty  to  the 
negro,  and  the  certainty  of  breaking  up  speedily  under  circum- 
stances of  wretchednecs  to  the  poor  slave,  and  losses  to  the  specu- 
lating government. . .  .Cavalry  fight  near  "Warrenton,  Ya.  Gen, 
Stewart  engaged  a  large  force  of  Federal  cavalry  and  succeeded 
in  completely  routing  them,  killing  forty  and  captuTed  one  hun- 
dred with  their  horses,  &c.  Confederate  loss  was  six  killed  and 
one  hundred  and  eighty  wounded.  .  .  .General  McClellan,  com- 
mander of  the  Federal  army,  takes  the  field  in  person,  command- 
ing the  "  army  of  the  Potomac  "  he  delivers  a  long  speech  to  his 
soldiers. 

I\Iarch  17.  Attack  and  bombardment  at  Island  lO,  Mississippi 
river,  continued  by  the  Federals.  The  Island  is  vigorously  de- 
fended. 

March  18.  Skirmish  near  Point  Pleasant,  Mo.  The  Federals 
erecting  batteries  below  Island  10.  The  Confederate  gunboats 
advances  and  shells  the  batteries,  a  brisk  firing  took  place  when 
the  Federals  retired  from  their  batteries.  Three  of  the  Confede- 
rate steamers  were  slightly  damaged.  A  gun  bursted  on  board 
one  of  the  boats  while  being  fired.     No  lives  lost. 

March  19.  Financial  condition  of  the  Confederate  States.  We 
learn  that  the  official  report  of  the  Secretary  of  the    Treasury 


78  THE  CONFEDERATE  .  fcTATEii  ALMANAC, 

shows  that  our  financial  system  has  proved  adequate  to  supplying 
all  the  wants  of  the  Government,  notwithstanding  the  unexpected 
and  very  large  increase  of  expenditures  resulting  from  the  great 
augmentation  in  the  necessary  means  of  defence.  The  report 
exhibits  the  gratifying  fact  that  we  have  no  floating  debt ;  that  the 
credit  of  the  Government  is  unimpaired,  and  that  the  total  expen- 
diture of  the  Government  for  the  3^car  has  been,  in  round  num- 
bers, one  hundred  and  seventy  millions  of  dollars — less  than  one 
third  of  the  sum  wasted  by  the  enemy  in  his  vain  effort  to  con- 
quer us — less  than  the  value  of  a  single  article  of  export — the 
cotton  crop  of  the  year. 

March  22.  Fighting  at  Cumberland  Gap,  Tennessee.  The 
Federals  were  repulsed  with  considerable  loss.  Confederate  loss 
Skilled,  5  wounded ....  Andy  Johnson,  the  Yankee  military 
Governor  of  Tennessee,  makes  a  speech  at  Nashville  in  which  he 
adroitly  seeks  to  throw  all  the  blame  for  the  present  condition  of 
affairs  upon  the  South. . .  .In  his  opinion,  Lincoln  is  our  friend, 
and  has  no  idea  of  interfering  with  our  institutions. 

March  22.  A  federal  gunboat  with  a  large  force  on  board  at- 
tempted to"  land  and  occupy  a  fortification  on  Mosquito  Inlet, 
Florida.  The  Federals  were  fired  on  by  a  party  of  Confederates 
and  forced  to  retreat.  Federal  loss  9  killed,  15  wounded  and 
2  captured. 

March  23.  Battle  at  Bolton's  Mill,  or  Kernstown,  Ya.,  Gen. 
(Stone  Wall)  Jackson  with  6000  men  engaged  the  Federals  under 
General  Shields,  numbering  18,000  strong,  after  a  severe  contest 
the  Federals  were  repulsed  and  fell  back.  General  Jackson  also 
fell  back  for  reinforcements.  Federal  loss  175  killed,  460 
wounded.  Confederate  loss  93  killed,  163.  wounded  and  230 
captured ....  Guerrilla  fighting  near  Jefferson  City,  Mo,  Fede- 
ral cavalry  attacked  Guerrilla  parties  dispersing  them,  78  were 
captured  prisoners,  3  killed,  the  Federals  lost  during  the  attack 
400  killed  and  wounded. 

March  25.  The  Federal  bombardment  at  Island  No.  10  has 
been  continued  for  nine  days,  without  doing  any  material  damage 
to  the  fortifications.  Two  Federal  gunboats  were  sunk  and  three 
badly  disabled  during  the  attack.  It  is  estimated  that  the  enemy 
fired  2500  shot  and  shell  at  the  batteries  on  island  10  and  vicinity 
during  the  first  four  days  of  the  bombardment,  and  wasted  60,000 
pounds  of  powder,  with  iron  in  proportion,  killing  one  and  wound- 
ing two  of  our  men.  The  shells  which  they  throw  at  us,  weigh 
from  190  to  200  pounds.  It  is  estimated  that  one  thousand  Fede- 
rals were  killed  and  wounded  during  the  bombardment. . .  .Bay 


AND  REPOSITORY  OF  USEFUL  KNOWLEDGE.        79 

St.  Louis.  A  lively  naval  battle  occurred  in  this  vicinity  to-day 
between  the  Confederate  gunboats  Oregon  and  Pamlico  and  the 
famous  Federal  gunboat  New  London.  The  fight  lasted  three 
hours,  and  resulted  in  the  defeat  of  the  New  London ....  Pepper- 
ing the  Yankees,  St.  Mary's  river,  Georgia.  A  Federal  gunboat 
with  a  large  force  on  board  went  in  pursuit  of  a  Confederate 
steamer.  The  Federals  unexpectedly  encountered  a  body  of 
Confederates  who  opened  fire  on  them,  killing  forty  and  wound- 
ing sixteen  Y'ankees.     The  Confederates  retired  without  loss, 

March  27.  Battle  of  Gloriettn,  New  Mexico.  The  Federals 
completely  routed,  with  a  loss  of  TOO  killed  and  captured.  Con- 
federate loss,  68  killed  and  wounded. 

March  29.  Another  attuck  on  the  Yankees  at  Edisto,  North 
Carolina.  General  Evans,  with  one  thousand  men,  proceeded  to 
attack  the  enemy,  which  was  supposed  to  be  2500,  but  found 
them  to  be  5000  to  GOOO.  The  Confederates  drove  in  the  ene- 
my's pickets,  killing  one,  mortally  wounded  and  capturing  twenty. 
We  retired  in  good  order.  ..  .Fight  in  Polk  county,  Mo.  An 
engagement  took  place  between  the  Confederate  forces  and  State 
troops  ;  large  number  of  Federals  killed  and  wounded.  Confede- 
rate loss  reported  to  be  L'S  killed  and  wounded. . .  .The  Pecu- 
liarities OF  THE  Day.—  In  the  whirl  of  pa.ssing  events  we  scarcely 
notice  the  strange  things  that  are  daily  happening  and  existing 
around  us.  How  astonishing  it  will  appear,  in  a  few  years,  that 
a  time  existed  vrhen  planters  raised  corn  and  potatoes,  fattened 
hogs  and  cultivated  garden  vegetables,  while  cotton  was  by  uni- 
versal consent  neglected,  and  this  at  a  time  when  cotton  was  worth 
in  Liverpool  28  cents  a  pound,  yet  selling  on  the  plantation  at  5 
cents....  Our  newspapers  have  felt  the  martial  influence  as 
strongly  as  other  things.  They  never  had  so  much  variety  as 
now,  since  Faust  first  pulled  the  press  ;  they  are  of  all  sizes  and 
colors,  and  sometimes  contain  four  pages,  and  sometimes  two. 
They  are  short  enough  for  a  pocket  handkerchief  one  day,  and 
big  enough  for  a  table  cloth  another.  They  assume  as  many  hues 
as  Niagara  in  the  bunshine,  and  are  by  turns  blue,  yellow,  green, 
red,  purple,  grey  and  common  brown  packing  paper. . . .  How  odd 
it  will  be  to  remember  that  certain  merchandize  was  forbidden  to 
be  brought  into  the  city,  and  certain  kinds  of  produce  to  be  taken 
out ;  and  that  in  many  places  in  the  markets  and  stores,  dealers 
could  sell  only  at  prices  dictated  to  them  by  a  provost  marshal. 
....  Politics  are  dead.  A  poHtical  enemy  is  a  curiosity  only  read 
of  in  books.  We  have  no  whigs,  no  democrats,  no  know  nothings, 
no  nothimr.     Our  amusements  have  revolutionized.     The  winter 


80  THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES  ALMANAC, 

has  passed  by  without  a  company  having  been  engaged  at  the 
theatre,  or  a  single  circus  having  spread  tent.  Our  people  have 
done  their  own  playing  and  their  own  singing,  and  the  ladies  have 
spent  the  mornings  in  sewing  coarse  .  shirts  or  pantaloons  for  the 
soldier  to  wear,  and  sung  in  public  at  night  to  gain  money  for  the 
soldiers'  equipments. ..  .The  President's  message  to  Congress, 
asking  the  repeal  of  all  existing  military  laws  and  making,  con- 
script laws  instead,  reconmiends  a  law  subjecting  every  man  be- 
tween 18  and  35  years  to  militia  service. . .  .Skirmish  near  Rap- 
pahanock  River,  Va.  Colonel  Wheat  enfjagcd  the  enemy,  driving 
them  back,  killing  3,  and  capturing  29  Yankees. 

March  30.  Federal  raid  at  Union  city,  Tenn.  A  large  force 
of  Federals  surprised  a  small  squad  of  Confederates  at  Union  city, 
after  a  sharp  engagement  the  Federals  retreated;  Confederate 
loss  2  killed,  7  wounded  and  thirty  taken  prisoners.  The  enemy 
captured  a  large  number  of  horses  and  army  stores ;  2  Federals 
killed, 

March  31.  Three  companies  of  Gleorgians  attacked  the  Yan- 
kees on  Wilmington  Island,  killing  one  and  wounding  several ; 
Georgians  lost  one  killed. . . .  Skirmish  near  Jacksonville,  Fla.  A 
detachment  of  Colonel  Dilworth's  Guard  attacked  the  Federals, 
killing  4  and  capturing  3  of  the  enemy  ;  Confederate  loss  2  killed 
and  wounded. 

April  1.  A  party  of  Federals  secretly  landed  at  Island  10,  and 
spiked  several  guns  of  the  Confederate  battery,  and  successfully 
escaped  from  the  Island. 

April  4,  Several  Federal  gunboats  and  transports  passed  Island 
10  during  a  heavy  storm  and  under  cover  of  the  night.  .  .  .Naval 
engagement  near  Bay  St.  Louis,  Miss.  The  Confederate  gun- 
boats engaged  the  Federal  boats.  The  Federals  withdrew,  one  of 
their  boats  being  badly  damaged ;  Confederate  loss  1  wounded. 

April  5.  Two  thousand  Federals  landed  at  Pass  Christian,  Mis- 
sissippi, and  attacked  the  Confederate  camps.  The  Confederates 
being  in  small  force,  were  compelled  to  retire,  no  one  hurt.  The 
Federals  after  committing  many  depredations  on  private  propeity, 
returned  to  their  boats. 

April  5-6.  Skirmishing  near  Yorktown,  Va.  The  Federals 
are  reported  to  be  landing  in  large  force  in  the  neighborhood.  A 
heavy  battle  will  take  place  at  an  early  day. 

April  6.  Skirmish  in  East  Tennessee.  Colonel  Vaughn  has 
penetrated  Scott  county,  Tennessee,  to  Huntsville,  whipped  the 
enemy  and  routed  him,  and  brought  off  meat,  shoes,  cattle  and 
horses.     He  killed  about  forty  of  the  enemy,  and  took  seventeen 


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prisoners,  losing  only  five  men.  He  also  destroyed  all  the  coni- 
missai-y  stores  be  could  not  bring  away. 

April  G-7.  Battle  of  Shilob,  Tenn.  The  Confederates,  under 
Gens.  Beauregard  and  Jobnson,  advanced  from  their  encampment 
and  attacked  the  enemy.  The  battle  commenced  early  on  Sunday 
morning.  The  fighting  was  the  most  terrible  of  any  during  the 
war,  both  sides  contending  with  great  desperation.  Towards  eve- 
ning the  Federals  commenced  fiilling  back  and  retreated  to  their 
gunboats  on  the  Tennessee  river,  being  severely  defeated,  leaving 
behind  nearty  all  their  batteries  (18)  which  were  taken  by  the 
Confederates.  General  Prentiss,  with  3000  men,  were  taken 
prisoners.  An  immense  number  of  guns,  army  stores,  &c.,  were 
captured  by  the  Confederates.  The  lamented  General  Albert  S. 
Johnson  was  killed  early  in  the  evening.  During  the  night  of 
Sunday,  the  Federals  were  largely  reinforced  by  General  Bnell 
with  25,000  troops,  and  on  Monday  morning  the  battle  was  re- 
newed with  vigor,  and  continued  throughout  the  day.  The  Fede- 
rals were  again  repulsed  and  defeated,  retiririg  to  their  gunboats. 
The  Confederates  moved  back  to  their  pasitions  after  accomplish- 
,ing  a  most  brilliant  success.  .  .  .The  Confederate  forces  in  the  two 
days'  fight  numbered  38,000  men.  The  Federal  forcQ  on  the  first 
day's  fight  was  over  58,000,  on  the  second  day  the  Federals  were 
reinforced  to  70,000  men.  The  Confederate  loss  was  1,728  kill- 
ed, 8,012  wounded,  and  959  missing;  Federal  loss,  2,500  killed 
and  9,800  wounded  and  3,700  taken  prisoners.  The  Federals 
suffered  severely  in  the  loss  of  officers,  nearly  all  being  killed, 
wounded  and  captured.  Generals  Sherman,  Tom  Crittenden, 
Major  Wallace  and  Lew  Wallace  were  killed.  Generals  Grant, 
Smith  and  Buell  were  wounded. 

April  7.  The  loss  of  Island  10,  Mississipppi  river.  After  being 
bravely  defended  from  a  constant  bombardment  of  twenty  days, 
the  Federal  gunboats,  with  a  large  force,  succeeded  in  passing  be- 
low the  island  and  attacked  the  rear  batteries,  and  compelled  the 
Confederates  to  leave  their  guns  and  surrender  the  island.  The 
Confederates,  before  surrendering,  destroyed  nearly  all  the  pro- 
perty on  the  island,  spiking  their  guns.  The  steamboats,  floating 
batteries  and  wharf  boats  were  scuttled  and  sunk,  About  one 
thousand  of  the  Confederates  escaped  from  the  island,  after  suffer- 
ing severe  hardships.  General  Mackall  and  three  thousand  men 
were  taken  prisoners  on  the  island.  Many  of  the  Confederates 
were  drowned  in*»making  their  escape  through  the  overflowed 
swamps  near  the  island ....  Picket  skirmish  at  Shepardstown, 
North  Carolina.     The  Confederates  killed  two  Yankees  and  cap- 


82  THE  CONFEDERATE   STATES  ALMANAC, 

tured  nine . . .  Reported  insurrection  in  Southern  Illinois.  A 
general  disposition  on  the  part  of  the  people  to  resist  the  payment 
of  the  war  tax,  followed  by  a  protest  of  some  twenty  members  of 
the  Legislature,  against  the  doctrines  of  Lincoln's  message,  is  said 
to  be  the  origin  of  the  difficulty.  The  recusant  members  were 
arrested  by  the  abolition  authorities.  Trouble  followed,  which  a 
single  regiment  found  it  impossible  to  quell,  when  several  others 
were  sent  out  and  the  peace  party  was  crushed  at  the  point  of  the 
bayonet. 

April  8.  When  our  army  commenced  retiring  from  Shiloh  on 
Monday  evening,  General  Breckinridge's  brigade,  with  the  cav- 
alry, was  ordered  to  bring  up  the  rear,  and  prevent  the  enemy 
from  cutting  off  any  of  our  trains.  The  cavalry  mentioned  were 
attacked  by  a  Federal  force  of  two  regiments  of  infantry  and  one 
of  cavalry,  the  latter  being  in  the  advance.  At  the  first  fire  the 
cavalry  of  the  enemy  turned  and  fled,  actually  breaking  the  ranks 
of  their  own  infantry  in  endeavoring  to  escape  the  missiles  of  the 
Confederates.  The  result  of  this  dashing  affair  was — Federal 
loss,  killed  and  wounded,  two  hundred  and  fifty,  and  forty-eight 
prisoners ;  Confederates,  ten  killed  and  wounded. 

April  II.'  Battle  of  Fort  Pulaski,  Georgia.  The  fort  was  at- 
tacked by  a  large  force  of  Federals.  After  a  most  gallant  defence 
the  Confederates  surrendered.  Three  balls  had  entered  the  mag- 
azine, and  a  clear  breach  had  been  made  in  it.  The  balls  were 
conical,  steel  pointed,  and  propelled  with  such  force  as  to  pass 
entirely  through  the  wall  at  nearly  every  fire.  No  lives  were  lost 
during  the  bombardment,  and  only  four  were  wounded., .  .The 
Federals  take  possession  of  Huntsville,  Alabama,  and  Decatur,  on 
the  Memphis  and  Charleston  Railroad  ;  the  enemy  seized  several 
railroad  cars  at  Decatur. 

April  13.  Engagement  at  Fort  Jackson  and  Fort  Philippe, 
La.  (The  first  firing  since  the  forts  were  built.)  Several  Federal 
gunboats  commenced  bombarding  Fort  Jackson  at  "long  range." 
The  Fort  promptly  replied  by  opening  their  batteries. 

April  12-13.  Heavy  skirmishing  continues  daily  on  the  Penin- 
sula, Va.  The  Federals  repulsed  in  every  attack.  In  the  fight 
on  the  1 2th  the  Confederates  lost  5  killed  and  13  wounded  ;  the 

Federal  loss  was  much  heavier The    seige   of  Fort  Macon, 

North  Carolina,  commences.  The  Federals  land  a  large  force 
near  the  fort.  Col.  White,  who  commanded  the  Confederates, 
sent  out  a  detachment  and  gave  them  battle,  repulsing  the  Fede- 
rals after  a  hot  contest.  Confederate  loss,  15  killed  and  several 
womided. 


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April  IG.  Skirmish  ucar  White  Marsh  Island,  Georgia.  The 
Federals  repulsed  with  a  loss  of  20  killed  and  wounded.  Con- 
federate loss,  5  killed  and  4  wounded ....  Battle  of  Lee's  Farm., 
Ya.  The  Federals  made  a  spirited  attack  on  the  Confederate 
lines.  After  a  hard  contested  battle  the  Federals  were  severely 
defeated.  Confederate  loss,  30  killed  and  55  wounded.  Federal 
loss,  385  killed  and  wounded.  The  Confederates  were  command- 
ed by  Gen.  Magruder. . .  .Skirmishing  near  Fredericksburg,  Va. 
The  Confederates  were  attacked  and  driven  into  the  city  with 
severe  loss.  The  Federals  under  Gen.  McDowell  advances  and 
compels  the  Confederates  to  evacuate  the  city  ;  large  amounts  of 
public  and  private  property  was  destroyed  during  the  hasty  evac- 
uation. 

April  18.  Bombardment  of  Forts  Jackson  and  St.  Phillippe, 
below  New  Orleans,  continued. 

April  19.  Battleof  South  Mills,  or  "Sawyers  Lane,"  Va.  The 
Federals  were  defeated.  Confederate  loss,  18  killed  and  50 
wounded.  Federal  loss,  200  killed  and  wounded. . .  .Fight  near 
Elizabeth  City,  North  Carolina.  The  Confederates  were  defeated 
with  a  loss  of  G  killed  and  31  wounded. . .  .The  Confederate 
Senate  passed  a  bill  providing  for  the  organization  of  partizan 

bands Skirmishing   continues  on   the  Peninsula,  Va.     The 

Confederates  generally  repelling  all  attacks  of  the  enemy  ;  in  the 
battle  to-day,  the  Confederate  loss  was  18  killed  and  50  wounded; 
the  Federal  loss  was  very  heavy. 

April  20.  The  seige  of  Fort  Jackson,  La.,  continues  day  and 
night.  Such  a  tremendous  bombardment  has  never  been  known 
in  modern  war.  It  is  estimated  that  the  enemy  have  fired  370,- 
OOO  pounds  of  powder,  and  lOOO  tons  of  iron.  No  damage  has 
yet  been  done  to  the  fort.  Two  gunboats  have  been  sunk  and 
one  disabled. 

April  23.  Guerrilla  fighting  in  liOgau  county,  Va.  A  largo 
party  of  Federals  were  routed,  with  a  loss  of  50  killed  and 
wounded. 

April  24.  Great  gunboat  battle  above  Fort  Jacksou.  On  the 
morning  of  24th  inst.,  the  Federal  fleet  succeeded  in  passing  the 
forts.  The  fleet  was  immediately  attacked  by  the  Confederate 
gunboats,  when  a  most  desperate  battle  took  place.  The  Confede- 
rate boats  were  all  disabled  and  sunk.  The  Federal  fleet  advanced 
up  the  river  to  New  Orleans.  The  Confederate  fleet  consisted  of 
10  gunboats,  including  the  great  ram  Louisiana  and  "Manassas." 
The  Federal  fleet  consisted  of  8  mortar  boats  and  14  war  steamera, 
including  4  iron  clads.     The  Federa-ls  lost  3  war  vessels  ;  one  of 


84  THE  COKFEDEHATE  STATES  ALMANAC, 

the  largest  vessels,  the  Pensacola,  with  a  crew  of  400  pei'sons,  was 
sunk  with  all  on  board.  Confederate  loss,  on  board  of  the  boats, 
38  killed  and  125  wounded.  Federal  loss  estimated  at  lOOO 
killed,  wounded  and  missing.  The  garrison,  under  Gen.  Duncan, 
still  held  possession  of  the  forts. 

April  25.  The  Federal  fleet  attacks  the  Chalmette  Batteries, 
below  New  Orleans ;  after  a  fight  of  two  hours,  the  batteries  were 
silenced. . .  .On  the  night  of  the  25th  inst,,  the  Confederate  gar- 
rison at  Fort  Jackson  mutinously  revolted,  spiking  their  guns, 
which  compelled  the  brave  Gen.  Duncan  to  surrender  the  forts  to 
the  Federals.  The  bombardment  of  the  fort  lasted  seven  days, 
unintermittingly.  Sixteen  lives  were  lost  inside  the  fort,  and  26 
wounded.  No  injury  was  done  to  the  guns  ;  the  fort  could  have 
been  held,  had  the  garrison  continued  faithful ....  Fort  Macon, 
North  Carolina,  surrenders  conditionally  after  a  well  contested 
defence.  Confederate  loss  inside  the  fort,  was  7  killed  and  18 
wounded. 

April  25-27.  Skirmishing  in  Tennessee  and  North  Alabama 
between  Colonel  Scott's  cavalry  and  the  Federals  under  General 
Mitchell,  Colonel  Scott  captures  a  large  amount  of  stores  and 
takes  several  prisoners. 

April  26.  Great  excitement  in  New  Orleans.  The  advance 
fleet  of  Federal  gunboats  arrives  in  front  of  New  Orleans,  a  party 
of  Federals  landed  and  demanded  the  surrender  of  the  city  ;  im- 
mense quantities  of  sugar  and  molasses  was  destroyed  to  prevent 
its  falling  into  the  Federal  hands  ;  General  Lovell  retreats  with 
his  troops  up  the  Jackson  railroad. 

April  27-28.  Battle  of  Cassville,  Mo.  Confederates  defeated 
with  a  loss  of  30  killed  and  wounded,  and  62  taken  prisoners. 

April  28,  Skirmish  at  Pittsburg  Landing,  Tenn.;  Federal  loss 
27  killed,  wounded  and  prisoners. 

April  28-29.  Heavy  skirmishing  at  Cumberland  Gap,  Tenn.; 
Federals  repulsed  with  a  loss  of  lOO  killed,  and  284  wounded  ; 
Confederate  loss  27  killed  and  61  wounded. 

April  29.  Fight  at  Bridgeport,  Tenn.;  Confederates  defeated. 

April  30,  and  May  1.  Forts  Macomb  and  Pike,  on  Lake 
Pontchatrain,  La.,  was  destroyed  and  abandoned  by  the  (^nfede- 
rates;  four  Confederate  gunboats  were  destroyed  in  a  very  hasty 
manner. 

May  1.  The  city  of  New  Orleans  formally  occupied  by  the 
Yankee  General  Butler ....  General  Morgan  captures  a  large 
amount  of  Federal  stores  at  Pulaski,  Tenn. 

May  5.    Skirmish  near   Lebanon,   Tenn.;  the   Confederates 


AND  REPOSITORY  OF  USEFUL  KNOWLEDGE.        85 

were  severely  defeated,  and  lost  20  killed  and  35  wounded  and 

45  captured  prisoners Battle  of  Williamsburg,  Va.;  a  signal 

victory  was  gained  by  the  Confederates,  under  General  Johnson, 
over  the  Federals,  under  General  McClellan  ;  Confederate  loss, 
520  killed  and  1100  wounded;  Federal  loss,  1000  killed  and 
2700  wounded. 

May  7.  Battle  of  Barhamsville.  or  West  Point,  Ya.;  the  Yan- 
kees were  badly  defeated. 

May  8.  Battle  at  McDowel's,  or  8itlington's  Mill,  Ya.;  Gen. 

Stonewall  Jackson  achieved  a  great   victory  over  the  Federals, 

who  were  commanded  by  General  Milroy ;  Confederate  loss,  350 

killed  and  wounded ;  Federal  loss,  175  killed  and  255  wounded. 

May  9.  The  Confederate  forces  evacuates  Pensacola  navy  yard, 

destroying  vast  amounts  of  property Battle  of  Farmington[ 

(near  Corinth,)  Tcnn.;  the  Federals,  under  General  Pope,  were 
badly  defeated  and  put  to  route,  with  a  loss  of  85  killed  and  100 
wounded ;  Confederate  loss,  15  killed  and  109  wounded. 

May  10.  Skirmish  near  Elkhorn  River,  North  Carolina;  Con- 
federate loss,  5  killed,  7  wounded ;  Federal  loss,  7  killed  and  45 
wounded. 

May  11.  Colonel  Morgan  captures  a  train  of  cars  on  the  Louis- 
ville railroad,  near  Cave  City. 

May  10-11.  Fighting  at  Parisburg,  or  Gibbs  Courthouse,  Ya. 
The  Federals  were  defeated  and  driven  from  the  town,  with  a  loss 
of  120  killed  and  Avouuded,  and  lOO  captured  ;  large  quantities 
of  Federal  stores  were  taken  ;  Confederate  loss,  1  killed  and  14 
wounded. 

May  11.  Skirmish  near  Pollocksville,  North  Carolina;  the 
Federals  defeated  with  a  loss  of  10  killed;  Confederate  loss,  3 
wounded  and  4  captured. 

May  12.  The  advance  fleet  of  Federal  gunboats  arrives  at 
Natchez,  Miss.,  and  demands  the  surrender  of  the  city. 

May  13.  Skirmishing  near  Purdy,  Tenn.;  several  killed  on 
both  sides. 

May  15.  The  fleet  of  Federal  gunboats  attacks  the  half  finished 
batteries  at  Drewry's  Bluff,  Ya  ;  the  Federals  were  repulsed  with 
a  loss  of  13  killed  and  11  wounded;  Confederate  loss,  7  killed 
and  8  wounded. 

May  17.  Battle  of  Princeton,  Ya.;  the  Confederates,  under 
General  Heth,  defeated  the  Yankees ;  Confederate  loss,  5  killed 
and  17  wounded ;  Federal  loss,  150  killed  and  wounded. 

May  18.  Skirmish  near  City  Point,  Ya.;  Federals  repulsed, 
with  a  loss  of  8  killed  and  9  captured. 


86  THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES  ALMANAC, 

May  18-19-20.  Skirmishing  near  Corintli,  Miss.;  several  se- 
vere fights  occurred  "without  important  results ;  the  Federals 
generally  worsted ;  in  the  action. of  the  20th  inst.  25  Confederates 
were  killed  and  65  wounded. 

May  18. ,  The  advance  division  of  Farragut's  Federal  fleet 
arrives  below  Vicksburg,  Miss.;  tlie  surrender  of  the  city  was 
demanded. 

May  19.  Skirmish  near  Warrenton,  Va.;  result  was  4  Yan- 
kees killed  ;  2  Confederates  killed Skirmish  below  Vicks- 
burg, Miss.;  4  Yankees  killed  and  wounded. 

May  18-19.  Battle  near  Searcy,  Arkansas;  Federals  defeated; 
Confederate  loss  5  killed  and  11  wounded ;  Federal  loss  45  killed 
and  wounded. 

May  21.  Bombardment  of  Fort  Pillow,  Tenn.,  resumed 

The  Federals  commenced  bombarding  the  batteries  at  Cole's 
Island,  near  Savannah. 

May  20.  A  party  of  Federals  in  approaching  St.  Marks,  Fla., 
were  surprised  by  the  Confederates;  17  Yankees  were  killed. 

May  23-24.  Battle  at  Front  Royal,  Va.;  the  Federals  were 
defeated  and  driven  from  the  town ;  1470  were  taken  prisoners ; 
large  quantities  of  Federal  stores  were  captured. 

May  23-24.  Battle  of  Lewisburg,  Western  Va.;  the  Confede- 
rates were  defeated  after  a  hard  fight ;  Confederate  loss,  230 
killed  and  wounded ;  Federal  loss  was  much  heavier. 

May  24.  The  Federal  army,  under  Gen.  Banks,  in  retreat 
from  Front  Royal,  is  pursued  by  the  Confederates,  who  captures 
several  prisoners,  and  takes  large  quantities  of  stores,  &c.,  near 
Middleton,  Va. . .  .Skirmish  on  the  New  Kent  Road,  Tenn.;  the 
Yankees  repulsed;  Confederate  loss '2  killed  and  5  wounded. 

May  23-24.  Skirmishing  at  Garnett's  Farm,  near  Richmond, 
Va.  A  severe  engagement  took  place,  in  which  the  Confederates 
were  defeated,  with  a  loss  of  lOO  killed  and  wounded  ;  Federal 
loss,  122  killed  and  wounded. 

May  25.  Battle  at  Winchester,  Va,  General  StonewallJack- 
son  defeats  the  Federal  army,  and  takes  800  prisoners,  and  cap- 
tures vast  quantities  of  Federal  stores;  Confederate  loss,  124 
killed  and  wounded ;  Federal  loss,  50  killed  and  259  wounded. 

May  26.  Skirmish  near  Grand  Gulf,  Miss,;  Federals  repulsed- 
The  first  bombarding  at  Vicksburg,  Miss.,  takes  place. 

May  26-27.  Skirmish  at  Hanover  Courthouse,  Va.  A  des- 
perate engagement  took  place,  in  which  the  Federals  were  defeated 
with  a  loss  of  63  killed  and  279  wounded ;  Confederate  loss  90 
killed  and  232  wounded. 


AND  BEPOSITORY  OF  USEFUL  KKOmLEDGE.        87 

May  28.  A  Confederate  scouting  party  was  surprised  near 
Oakfield,  Fla.,  and  one  man  killed. 

May  28-29.  Corinth,  Miss.,  evacuated  by  the  Confederates, 
under  General  Beauregard ;  skirmishing  occurred  during  the 
retreat ;  General  Price  engaged  the  Yankees  and  repulsed  them. 

May  31.  General  Stonewall  Jackson  falls  back  from  Winches- 
ter, Va. 

May  31,  and  June  1.  Battle  of  Seven  Pines,  or  Fair  Oaks, 
Va.  The  Federal  army,  under  General  McClellan,  was  defeated 
by  the  Confederates  .under  Gens  Hill,  Longstreet,  and  Huger  ; 
Federal  loss,  2070  killed,  and  4900  wounded,  and  550  prisoners; 
Confederate  loss,  1035  killed,  and  2700  wounded. 

June  1.  Fight  near  Strausburg,  Ya.  Gen.  Jackson  defeats 
the  Federals  under  Fremont. 

June  2-5.  Skirmishing  near  Washington,  N.  C  The  Federals 
defeated,  with  a  loss  of  9  killed  and  17  wounded ;  Confederate 
los3,  3  killed  and  4  wounded  ;  Colonel  Singletary  was  killed. 

June  3.  Skirmish  on  James  Island,  near  Savannah  ;  the  Fede- 
rals repubcd,  20  captured  prisoners;  Confederate  loss,  2  killed 
and  8  wounded. 

June  4.  Fort  Pillow  evacuated  b'ythe  Confederate  forces 

Fight  near  Sweeden's  Cave,  Tenn-  A  party  of  Confederates  were 
surrounded  by  a  large  force  of  Federals ;  the  Confederates  cut 
their  way  out  with  a  loss  of  l5  killed. 

June  5.  Skirmishing  on  the  Chickahominy,  Ya.  Four  Con- 
federates wounded .  . .  ."Skirmish  near  Harrisburg,  A'irginia.  The 
Federals  repulsed  ;  Confederate  loss  40  killed  and  lOO  wounded  ; 
General  Turner  Ashby  killed. 

June  G.  Naval  battle  in  front  of  INIemphis,  Tenn.  The  Yan- 
kee fleet,  under  Com.  Davis,  attacks  our  gunboats;  after  three 
hours  hard  fighting  we  were  defeated  ;  our  loss  80    killed   and 

wounded,  and  75  taken  prisoner.-,  and  four  gunboats  sunk The 

city  of  Memphis  formally  surrendered  and  was  occupied  by  the 
Yankees. 

June  7.  W.  B.  Mumford  was  publicly  hung  in  the  city  of  New 
Orleans,  by  the  order  of  Gen.  Butler,  for  tearing  down  the  United 
States  flag  from  the  mint. 

June  7-8.  Fighting  on  James  Island,  near  Savannah;  the 
Yankees  were  again  repulsed;  our  loss  55  killed  and  wounded. 
June  8-9.  Battle  of  Port  Republic,  Ya.  Gen.  Jackson  defeats 
the  Yankees  under  Gen.  Shields  and  Fremont;  our  loss  550 
killed  and  wounded ;  Yankee  loss  1000  killed  and  wounded,  and 
700  taken  prisoners. 


88  THE  CONFEDERATE   STATES  ALMANAC, 

June  10.  Skirmish  near  York  River  Railroad,  Va.  Yankees 
defeated  with  a  lo.ss  of  45  killed ;  our  loss  4  killed. 

June  11.  Battle  of  Cross  Keys,  Va.  Gen.  Ewell  defeats  the 
Federals  under  Fremont.  Federal  loss  1,000  killed  and  wound- 
ed ;  Confederate  loss  124  killed  and  wounded. 

June  14-15  Gen.  Stuart  makes  a  successful  raid  among  the 
Yankees  near  Hanover  Court  House,  and  destroys  a  large  amount 
of  Federal  property  and  captures  175  prisoners.  The  brave 
Capt.  Latane  was  killed  in  th^.  action. 

June  14.  Battle  of  Languelle,  on  White  River,  Ark.  Fed  - 
erals  defeated. 

June  16.  Battle  of  Secessionville  S.  C.  A  complete  victory 
was  gained  over  the  Federals.  Confederate  loss  40  killed  and 
100  wounded,  26  missing ;  Federal  less  300  killed  and  wounded. 
•  June  1 8.  Skirmish  near  Richmond,  Va.  Federals  repulsed  ; 
Confederate  loss  9  wounded. 

June  25.  Battle  on  the  Williamsburg  Road,  Va.  The  First 
Louisiana  Regiment  engaged  Sickles'  Brigade.  After  a  sharp 
fight  the  Yankees  were  driven  back.  Confederate  loss  200  killed 
and  wounded. 

Battles  of  the  Chickahominy,  before  Richmond,  Va.  June 
26,  battle  of  Mechanicsvilfe  ;  27,  battle  of  Gainesville ;  29,  battle 
of  Frazer's  Farm;  30,  battle  of  Willis'  Church ;  July  1,  battle  of 
Malvern  Hill.  The  great  Federal  army  under  Gen.  McClel- 
lan  was  defeated  and  utterly  routed  after  seven  days  hard  fight- 
ing. Confederate  loss  1,350  killed  and  4,420  wounded ;  Fed- 
eral loss  1,585  killed.  7,800  wounded  and  6,000  taken  prisoners. 

June  28.  Great  bombardment  at  Vicksburg,  Miss.  Seven  of 
the  Federal  gunboats  advanced  in  front  of  the  city,  passing  the 
batteries,  when  a  most  terrific  bombardment  took  place.  No  in- 
jury was  sustained  by  the  forts. 

July  1.  A  Confederate  battery  opened  fire  on  the  enemy  near 
Coggins'  Point,  James  River.  After  a  sharp  contest  the  Fed- 
erals retreated.     Confederate  loss  2  killed  and  6  wounded. 

July  3.  Gen.  McClellan  evacuates  his  position  before  Rich- 
niond,  Va.,  and  retires  to  the  James  River. 

July  4.  The  army  of  the  Potomac  was  originally  230,000 
strong.  Prior  to  the  5th  of  April,  according  to  the  testimony  of 
the  Assistant  Secretary  of  War,  McClellan  had  120,000  men  at 
Yorktown.  From  the  time  he  landed  at  Yorktown  to  the  begin- 
ning of  the  great  battles,  he  lost,  it  seems,  in  various  ways,  73,- 
000,  and  between  the  landing  and  close  of  the  seven  days'  fight- 
ing, 98,000  out  of  158,000  had  been  killed,   had  died  in  the 


AND  REPOSITOKY  OF  USEFUL  KNOWLEDGE.        89 

«wainps,  or  had  by  sickness  been  rendered  unfit  for  service.  In 
less  than  a  year,  he  lost  nearly  100,000  out  of  230,000  men, 
without  accomplishing  anything. 

July  8,  Skirmish  at  Culpeper  Cross  Roads,  Ya.  The  Fed- 
erals defeated. 

July  13.  Col.  Forrest  attacks  and  captures  the  Yankee  gar- 
rison at  Murireesboro,  Tenn.  Federal  loss  60  killed  and  140 
wounded  and  1,900  taken  prisoners. 

July  15.  Skirmisji  at  Fayettevillc,  Ark.  Confederates  de- 
feated  The  great  ram  Arkansas  engages  the  Federal  fleet 

near  Yicksburg  Miss. ,  and  successfully  run  the  gauntlet  be- 
tween 30  gun  and  mortar  boats,  without  sustaining  any  injury. 
Nearly  all  of  the  Federal  fleet  was  damaged,  and  one  sunk  by  the 
guns  of  the  Arkansas.  Federal  loss  on  board  the  boats  was  63 
killed  and  84  wounded  ;  Confederate  loss  on  board  the  Arkansas 
9  killed  and  4  wounded.  The  Arkansas  came  down  and  moored 
under  the  batteries  at  Yicksburg ;  about  seven  o'clock  in  the 
evening  five  of  the  Federal  gunboats  came  down  and  attempted 
to  cut  the  Arkansas  from  the  shore  ;  the  eff'ort  was  unsuccessful, 
and  the  fleet  was  driven  ofi". 

July  21.  Skirmish  near  Carmel  Church,  Ya.  The  Federals 
claimed  a  victory. 

July  22.  The  Confederate  and    Federal    Governments  make 

an  agreement  for  a  general   exchange  of  prisoners Lincoln 

publishes  an  order   authorizing   the  confiscating  of   Confederate 

property  for  the  use  of  Federal   soldiers The  Federal  fleet 

makes  another  attack  on  the  ram  Arkansas,  in  front  of  Yicks- 
burg.    The  fleet  was  repulsed The  Confederates   attack  the 

Yankees  at  Florence,  Ala.,  and  destroy  a  large  amount  of  stores, 

July  23.  Gen.  Bragg  leaves  Tupelo,  Miss.,  for  Kentucky. 

July  24.  The  combined  Federal  fleet  retires  and  abandons  the 
seige  of  Yicksburg,  without  accomplishing  anything,  after  a  seige 
of  six  weeks.  No  injury  was  sustained  by  any  of  the  batteries 
at  Yicksburg.  The  number  of  shells  thrown  into  the  city  and 
at  the  batteries  will  amount  to  25,000.  The  casualties  in  the 
city  was  one  woman  and  one  negro  man  killed,  and  among  the 
soldiers  on  guard  and  at  the  batteries  there  was  22  killed  and 
wounded.  The  lower  bombardmg  fleet,  under  command  of  Coms. 
Farragut  and  Porter,  consisted  of  18  gun  and  mortar  boats,  5 
sloops  of  war  and  70  transports;  the  upper  fleet  consisted  of  11 
gunboats  and  rams,  and  13  transports,  under  command  of  Com. 
Davis.  It  is  estimated  that  50  0  Federals  died  from  sickness  du- 
ring the  seige  of  Yicksburg. 


90  THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES  ALMANAC, 

July  25.  Col.  Armstrong   attacks  the  Yankees  at  Courtlaud, 

Ala.,  and  captures   133  prisoners Col.    Kelly   attacfaf  and 

routs  a  large  party  of  Federals  at  Jonesboro,  Tenn.     Foderal  loss 
9  killed  and  5  wounded ;  3  Confederates  wounded. 

July  26.  Guerilla  fighting  in  Missouri.  The  Confederate 
guerillas  have  been  successful  in  several  attacks  on  the  Federals 
in  Missouri. 

July  29.  Fight  at  Mt.  Sterling,  Ky.  The  Confederates  were 
repulsed  with  a  loss  of  13  killed  and  20  wounded  ;  Federal  loss 
3  killed  and  7  wounded. 

July  31.  Gen.  Morgan's  official  report  of  his  successful  raids 
through  Kentucky  and  Tennessee,  amounts  to  the  capturing  of 
20  towns,  and  taking'of  1,200  prisoners,  and  destroying  Federal 
property  to  the  amount  of  $600,000.  The  Confederate  loss  in 
all  the  engagements  was  23  killed  and  47  wounded Engage- 
ment on  the  James  River  near  Richmond,  Va.  The  Federal 
fleet  repulsed.     Confederate  loss  3  killed  and  4  wounded, 

July  27.  Skirmishing  near  Bolivar,  Tenn.  The  Confederates 
repulsed  with  a  loss  of  15  killed  and  wounded. 

July  27-30.  Skirmishing  near  Stevenson,  Ala.  The  Yankees 
defeated  in  two  severe  fights.  Loss  of  both  sides,  17  killed  and 
40  wounded. 

July  28.  Battle  of  Moore's  Mill,  Mo.  (near  Fulton.)  The 
Confederates  were  routed  with  a  loss  of  22  killed  and  60 
wounded. 

July  28.  Skirmishing  near  Humboldt,  Tenn, 

June  — .  The  Confederates  attacked  and  captured  the  Federal 
garrison  at  Summerville,  Ya.  Federal  loss,  6  killed  and  23 
wounded.     Confederate  loss,  5  wounded. 

Aug'  1.  Bombardment  on  James  River,  near  Westover.  Four 
Federals  killed  and  8  wounded. 

Aug.  2.  Fight  near  Madison,  Ark.  Gen.  Parsons  surprised  a 
Federal  camp  and  put  the  Yankees  to  flight. 

Aug.  2,  Cavalry  skirmish  at  Orange  Court  House,  Ya.  Con- 
federates defeated,  2  killed  and  lO  wounded. 

Aug.  3.  Skirmish  at  Cox's  Mill  Creek,  Ya.  Confederate  loss 
2  killed  and  5  wounded. 

Aug,  3.  Fight  near  Memphis,  Tenn.  The  Confederates  un- 
der JelF.  Thompson  defeated  with  a  loss  of  three  killed  and  five 
wounded, 

August  4.  Skirmish  near  Hanover  Court  House,  Ya.  Gen, 
Stuart  captures  30  Yankees.     Federal  stores  destroyed. 

August  5-6.  Fighting  near  Malvern  Hill,  Ya.     The  Federala 


AND  REPOSITORY  OF  USEFUL  KNOWLEDGE.        91 

after  a  hard  battle  defeated  the  Confederates  with  a  loss  of  five 
killed  and  nine  wounded.  The  Federals  afterwards  evacuated 
the  place.     Federal  loss  30  killed  and  wounded. 

Augusts.  Battle  of  Tazewell,  near  Cumberland  Gap,  Tenn. 
Federals  repulsed  with  a  loss  of  94  killed  and  wounded.  Con- 
federate loss  21  killed  and  35  wounded' 

August  5.  Battle  of  Baton  Rouge,  La.  The  Confederates  un- 
der Gen.  Breckinridge,  gained  a  signal  victory.  Federal  loss 
730  killed  and  wounded.  Confederate  loss  42  killed  and  173 
wounded. 

August  5-8.  Guerilla  fighting  near  Stockton,  Mo.  The  Fed- 
erals claimed  a  victor3^  Confederate  loss  90  killed  and  wounded. 
Federal  loss  85  killed  and  wounded. 

August  (j.  Fight  at  Pack's  Ferry,  Western  A'irginia.  Gen. 
Loring  repulsed  a  large  force  of  Federals. 

August  6.  The  great  ram  and  gunboat  "Arkansas"  destroyed 
and  abandoned  by  her  officers.  Tlic  machinery  of  the  boat  be- 
came disabled,  which  compelled  the  crew  to  destroy  the  boat  to 
prevent  her  falling  into  Federal  hands. 

August  C)th.  The  notorious  Federal  General  McCook  was  kill- 
ed by  Partisan  Rangers  in  Tennessee. 

August  7.  Skirmish  near  Decatur,  Ala.  Capt.  Roddy  defeat.s 
a  force  of  Federals,  killing  several  and  capturing  123  prisoners. 
Confederate  loss  2  killed  and  7  wounded. 

August  8th.  Fight  near  Culpepper  court-house,  Ya.  The 
Federals  were  badly  routed,  5  killed  and  19  wounded,  and  21 
taken  prisoners. 

August  8.  Lincoln  issues  a  proclamation  calling  for  000,000 
more  men  to  put  down  the  rebellion. 

August  8-9.  Battle  of  South  West  Mountain,  or  Cedar  Run, 
Ya.  The  Confederates,  under  General  Jackson,  defeated  the 
combined  divisions  of  the  Federal  army  under  ]5anks,  McDowell 
and  Seigel.  Confederate  loss  220  killed  and  670  wounded.  Gen. 
Winder  killed.  Federal  loss  300  killed  and  OOO  wounded,  and 
400  taken  prisoners. 

August  11.  Battle  of  Independence,  Mo.  The  Confederate 
Partisans  under  Col.  Hughes  and  Quantrell,  defeated  the  Federals, 
killing  29. 

August  11.  Skirmish  at  Friar's  Point,  Miss.  The  Yankees 
defeated  and  put  to  route,  several  taken  prisoners. 

August  15-16.  Battle  at  Lone  Jack,  Mo.  Col.  Tracy,  the 
Partisan  leader,  gained  a  great  victory  over  the  Federals,  putting 
tliem  to  route  with  a  loss  of  300  killed  and  wounded.     Corfeder- 


92  THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES  ALMANAC. 

ate  loss,  73  killed  and  wounded.  Previous  to  this  battle,  Colonel 
Tracy  had  defeated  the  enemy  in  Greenfield,  Osceola  and  Har- 
monsville,  Mo,  causing  great  havoc  among  the  Yankees,  capturing 
large  amounts  of  Federal  stores,  and  took  300  prisoners,  and  kill- 
ing over  100  of  the  enemy. 

August  16.  A  party  of  Confederates  were  defeated  near  Mam- 
moth Cave,  Ky. 

August  16-17.  Skirmish  at  Bayou  Sara,  La.  The  Federals 
destroyed  part  of  the  town — several  persons  killed. 

August  17.  Skirmish  at  Loudon,  Ky.  The  "Kirby  Smith 
Brigade"  of  cavalry,  under  Col.  Scott,  routed  the  Federals  and 
drove  them  from  the  place,  capturing  120  men  ;  Confederate  loss 
two  killed. 

August  18.  B arbours ville,  Ky.,  taken  by  the  Confederates; 
4-5  Yankees  taken  prisoners. 

August  19  Gen  Lee  crossed  the  Rapidan  in  pursuit  of  the 
retreating  Federal  army  under  Gen  Pope. 

August  20  Fight  near  Union  Mills,  Buchanan  county.  Mo  ; 
Federals  defeated,  with  a  loss  of  5  killed  and  4  wounded. 

August  20  Fort  Donelson,  Tenn,  taken  by  the  Confederates, 
1100  Federals  taken  prisoners. 

August  20-21  Fighting  near  Gallatin,  Tenn  The  Confeder- 
ates under  Gen  Morgan  defeats  and  routes  the  Yankees  under 
Gen  Johnson  Federal  loss  200  killed  and  wounded,  and  500 
taken  prisoners  ;  Confederate  loss  27  killed  and  39  wounded. 

August  22  Battle  of  Big  Hill,  near  Richmond,  Ky  Colonel 
Scott  defeats  the  Federals,  putting  them  to  route  with  a  loss  of 
23  killed  and  65  wounded. 

August  22.  Skirmish  at  Warrenton,  Va  Federals  defeated 
with  great  loss. 

August  22  Gen  Stuart  surprises  the  Yankees  at  Catlett  Sta- 
tinn,  Va,  routing  the  enemy  and  capturing  a  large  amount  of 
Federal  stores,  and  took  350  prisoners  ;  Confederate  loss  2  killed 
and  5  wounded. 

August  26  Skirmishing  at  Rienzi,  Miss  .A  Confederate  party 
made  a  dash  into  the  Federal  camps,  Capturing  17  prisoners. 

August  27  The  Federals  evacuate  Huntsville,  Ala 

August  26  Fighting  near  Danville,  Ky  Our  forces  defeated 
and  40  taken  prisoners 

August  26  Our  forces  capture  the  Yankee  camps  and  stores 
at  Manassas  Junction. 

August  27  Fighting  near  Bridgeport,  Tenn  Gen  Armstrong 
defeated  the  Federals  after  a  sharp  fight.  Federal  loss  70  killed 
and  wounded  and  2l3^taken  prisoners. 


August  -29-^00.  Skirmish  near'- l"?olivMr,  Town.  iViierais 
routed  with  a  loss  of  90  l:\MM  and  woutidcd,  nnd  70  tnkcn  ]>ri>- 
Oiioiri.     Confederates  8r.  killorl  ntid  wounded. 

August  28.  Fioht  at  Thoroudifavo  Gnp,  \':i.  Tho  rodcrnls 
•severely  dofoated,  niul driven  from  their  strong  ontrcnclimonts. 

August  29-oU.  rJattleof  Mi.  Zion,  or  Ivichmoud,  Kv.  (Jen. 
Kirby  Smith  achieved  n  signal  vicfoiy  over  the  r'edorais  in  two 
hard'fought  battl..-.  I'Vderal  loss  17.^  killed  ond  450  wounded, 
:>nd  4300  taken  pri^-inor^-  (tmiforlonto  Ic--.  I'^"  kill-'^  nnd  800 
wounded/ 

August  29-'>0.  ^ccon-l  ;';;U1l  on  ^l,w,.>  .;.:  i'i;uii,,  "^  ;i.  lien. 
Lee  won  a  glorious  victory  over  the  Federal  arri^y,  under  Ccn. 
i^ope.  Oonfedei-atc  loss  1800' killed  and  4,000  v:oitncled.  Fcde- 
val  loss  1 0,000  killed  and  wQuuded,  and.T.OOO  taken  pris^incrs. 

August.?!,  right  at  Pletensori,'  Tenn.  "The  Federals  were 
lefcatod  and  compelled  to  evneunte  their  stroU'tc  fortifications. 

August  .'^O-J^cpt.  i!cl.  Col.  Jcnldns  dcfrate'd  the  Federals  fn 
Severn!  fighcs  intiie'Kf^'.i.iwhn  "\'nllpy,  n.ipturing  "^ovrml  nri<Joner- 
Federal  stores,  A:'-. 

Scptcnd;?cr  lit.   J];.!:!'-  U::;!r  CLUl,.-.iIl.  ,    •.  ...       .  ..i.l  :.;'..-    .,_^;i... 

defeated  liy  Gen.  rlnei:son.     <'oTifederutD  lot<^',  -l/i  killed  and  ].^>.') 
vou'j'''vd..     The  FcdernJ.ti''^'"^"'!  ^''^■arucj  ].Nilled. 

S(?ptpu>l?.ei;.. L    ,!5l^^rE;i>'  'cnnautov,  i;,    '.  .u     i-Vdends 

routc(iv"    ' ,   ,.  ,V    •    ;  V.  '  '^  -      .  •      ' 

ScptQi}jt;oiC  A.  'J5oiiiI)ardii.i  1 1 1  lU  N j i chez,  ]  i\iri<.  A^wty  oi 
Federals  landecl'at  j^atdioz,  and  were  driven  Lack  .  to  .their  guu- 
lioats.  The  hoats  then  shelled  the,  city  for  W'vvr.il  huiu-s!  Two 
])ersous  wore'  killed  in  the  city.  ' 

.Septoiuber  od.  .CoJ.  Scott  takes  i.uvm-h.mi  .;!  i'i;mkiorr,  Ky., 
a  ud  captures  several  Yunliecs.  ;     .  .  '^.,     . j.  ^  .j    . j .  •  - '  • ;    . 

September  7-l0.  Guerilla 'Iightmi,v  iiea^,  Sajt' 'llivcf,  Ky. 
Federals  routed. 

September  9  Tlie  Conl'jderat*-  Army  uiidcr  (iciicrai,<  :.(•«>  ni:d 
Jackson  enters  Maryland. 

September  9-lU.  Col.  Jenkins  dcitats  the  Fcdoials  nt  Jkiclia- 
nan  and  Kavenswood,  Western,  \'a.,  capturing  large  amounts  ot 
I'edcral  stores. 

September  9th.  .The  Yankee  garrison  at  Williamsburg,  Xii.. 
was  surprised  and  cafUh'e'd  by  the  Conibdcrates.  Federal  lo.^> 
15  killed  and 70  takfenpri.soners,  Confederate  I0.-0  Vr  kilk-.l 
and  wounded. 

September  9.    Fight  at  Williamsburrr,  \'a.     Tl,.'  FedeiaU  dc- 


94  THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES  ALMANAC, 

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feated  and  driven  from  the  town,  with  a  loss  of  18  killed.     Con- 
federate loss  3  killed  and  5  wounded. 

September  9.  Washington,  North  Carolina  taken  by  the  Con- 
federates ;  the  Federals  re-captured   the  place  after  a  hard  fight. 

September  10.  Skirmishing  near  Helena,  Arkansas.  Federals 
defeated. 

September  11.  Great  excitement  was  created  in  the  country 
by  the  report  of  the  capture  of  Cincinnati. 

September  11 .  Engagement  on  the  St.  Johns  River,  Florida. 
Federal  gunboats  repulsed.  Our  loss  two  killed  and  five  woundedi 

September  13-14.  Battle  of  Cotton  Hill,  Western  Va.  Gen. 
Loring  defeats  ihe  Federals,  capturing  all  their  fortifications, 
stores,  &c.  Federal  loss  400  killed  and  wounded.  Our  loss  25 
killed  and  wounded. 

Sept.  15.  Fighting  at  Charleston,  Western,  Va.  Gen.  Loring 
again  defeats  the  Yankees,  driving  them  from  the  town. 

Sept.  14.  Battle  of  Fort  Craig,  opposite  Mumfordsville,  Ky., 
Gen.  Chalmers  attacked  the  Federals,  after  a  day's  hard  fighting, 
our  forces  were  compelled  to  fall  back  with  severe  loss.  General 
Chalmers  is  much  to  be  censured  for  his  unnecessary  attack  and 
sacrifice  of  liv^s.  Our  loss  65  killed  and  275  wounded.  Fede- 
ral loss  18  killed  and  30  wounded. 

September  13-14.  Skirmishing  near  Opelousas,  La.  Several 
fights  occurred  between  Confederate  partisans  and  marauding  par- 
ties of  Yankees.  150  Yankees  were  captured  in  one  skirmish. 
The  Confederates  lost  15  men  killed  and  13  wounded,  and  fifty 
captured  in  different  conflicts. 

September  13,  14,  15.  Seige  and  capture  of  Harper's  Ferry, 
Va.  Gen  Stonewall  Jackson  captures  the  Yankee  garrison  after 
three  days'  hard  fighting.  11,583  Yankees  were  taken  prisoners. 
Our  loss  31  killed  and  40  wounded.  Yankee  loss  200  killed 
and  wounded.  An  immense  amount  of  Federal  stores,  guns,  &c. 
were  taken. 

Sept  14.  Battle  of  Boonsboro  Gap  or  South  Mountain,  Mary- 
land. The  Confederates  under  D.H.  Hill  fought  a  most  desperate 
battle,  repulsing  the  Federals  and  holding  possession  of  the  Pass 
against  the  enemy  who  outnumbered  them  five  to  "one.  Federal 
loss  5,000  killed  and  wounded.  Confederate  loss  600  killed  and 
1,800  wounded. 

Sept.  14.  Confederate  Debt.  Up  to  the  first  of  August,  1862, 
our  debt  was  $328,748,830.70 ;  and  for  outstanding  requisitions, 
$18,524,128.15.  Receipts  at  the  Treasury,  grand  total,  $802,555,- 
196.60.  Funds  to  be  raised  by  January  1,  1863,  $209,550,487.06; 
most'  of  which  is  to  bo  raised  by  Treasury  Notes. 


AIS-D  REPOSITORY  OF  USEFUL  KNOWLEDGE.        95 

Sept.  13,  14.  General  Armstrong  surprises  the  Federals  at 
luka,  Miss.,  and  routes  the  garrison.  Gen.  Price  enters  the  town 
on  the  15th,  aud  captures  a  large  amount  of  Federal  stores,  «fcc. 
Confederate  loss  5  killed  and  wounded.  Federal  loss  10  killed,  21 
wounded.  • 

Sept.  13.  Fight  at  Nowtonia,  Mo.  Federals  defeated  with  a 
loss  of  150  killed  and  wounded,  and  lOQ  taken  prisoners. 

Sept.  15.  Fight  at  Ponchatoula,  La.  Federals  routed  after  ;i 
brisk  engagement.  Yankee  loss  5  killed  and  H  woimded.  Confed- 
erate loss  2  killed. 

Sept.  17.  The  Federal  garrison  at  Mumfordsvillc  surrendered  tt) 
Gen.  Buckner.     4,800  Yankees  taken  prisoners. 

Sept.  17.  The  Federals  evacuates  Cumberland  Gap,  Tenn. 

September  17.  Battle  of  Sharpsburg  or  Antictam,  Maryland. 
A  signal  victory  was  won  by  the  Confederates  under  Gen.  Lee. 
The  Federals  under  command  of  Gen.  McClellan  numbered 
00,000  men.  The  Confederate  force  amounted  to  :)6,()()0  men. 
The  Confederates  held  possession  of  the  battle-field  for  124  hours 
after  the  fight,  and  made  a  successful  retreat.  Confederate  loss, 
1,900  killed  and  6,915  wounded  and  800  taken  prisoners.  Fede- 
ral loss,  2,010  killed  and  9,416  wounded  and  1,044  taken  pris- 
oners. 

September  18,  Fight  near  Jacksonville,  Fla.  Federal  gun 
boats  repulsed, 

September  19.  Gen.  Lee  retreats  across  the  Potomac  from 
Maryland. 

September  19-20.  Battle  of  luka,  Miss.  Gen.  Price  defeated 
the  Federals  in  the  first  day's  fight,  driving  them  from  their  for- 
tifications. The  second  day's  battle  resulted  in  the  complete  rout 
of  the  Confederates,  with  a  loss  of  265  killed  and  687  wounded. 
Federal  loss,  188  killed  and  582  wounded. 

September  20.  Battle  of  Sheppardstown  Ford,  ^Nlaryland. 
Gen.  A.  P.  Hill  achieved  a  fine  victory  over  the  Federals,  repuls- 
ing and  driving  them  back  across  the  Potomac  with  great  loss. 
Confederate  loss,  250  killed  and  wounded.  Federal  lo.<s,  3,500 
killed  and  wounded. 

Sept  21.     Mumfordsvillc,  Ky.,  evacuated  by  the  Confederates, 

September  22.  Lincoln  issues  a  proclamation  declaring  all 
negroes  in  the  Rebel  States  free  after  the  Ist  of  January,  i863. 

September  26,  Gen.  Beauregard  takes  command  of  the  army 
at  Charleston  S.  C. 

September  27.  Sabine  city  taken  by  the  Federals. 

September  29.  Fight  near  New  Haven,  Ky.  Confederate.^ 
defeated.     Col.  Crawford  and  290  Confederates  taken  prisoners. 


OG  TUIv  COXFEDERATE   .STATES  ALMANAC-, 

(Jctubcr  1.  Sidrmisliing  near  Mkldletoii,  Ky.  I'cclcral  iu.-s,  11 
id  lied  and  19  wounded.  Oonfcderrtte  loss,  7  killed  and  13  woun- 
d(>d.  . .  .Sk''rni?^h  at  Fern  Orcek,  K3^  Federals  ropulscd  with  ;; 
i(.ss  of  7  hilled  and  wounded. . .  .A  report  was  presented  to  the 
Contcdoratc  ►Senate,  showing  the  whole  number  of  siek  and 
wounded  soldier.s'  admitted  into  the  Hospitals  in  and  around 
Kichmond,  since  their  organization,  to  ohe  present  time,  was 
*K),.j05,  of  whom  0,774  have  been  furlouirhed,  and  7,603  have 
died. 

October  o.  Fijiht  near  b'ranklin.  N.  C.  i^^'derals  defeated, 
vdth  a  loss  of  20  killed  and  18  wounded  !)nd  40  prisoners. 

October  3-4—3.  Battle  at  Corinth,  Miss.  (.V)nfederates  won 
signal  victories  im  the  iirst  and  second  lay's  fighting  ;  on  the 
third  day  they  lost  the  battle  and  wers  compelled  to  retreat. 
Confederate  loss,  800  killed  and  2,300  wounded",  and  388  taken 
prisone;s.  Federal  loss,  oOO  hilled  and  L.'^^OO  wounded  and  32(» 
taken  prisoners. 

October  3.  Skirmish  :it  Olive  Hill,  Ky.  Cenerai  ^lorgan 
defeats  the  Home  Guards. 

Octobers.  The  Confederal  es  make  an  attack 'Ou  a  fleet  ot 
r'edeial  steamboats  near  Donaldsonville,  La,  killing  several 
Vankees  on  board  of  the  steamers. 

October  G  Skirmish  near  Big  Ijurcli  Mountain,  Western  Va.. 
several  Yanhees  taken  prisoners. 

October  7.  A  party  of  Confederates  under  Gen  Anderson 
were  surprised  and  captured  at  Lavernge,  Tcnn. 

Ocoober  8.  iiattle  of  Perry ville  or  Chaplin  Hill,  Ky.  A  de- 
cided victory  wf.s  gained  by  the  Confederates  under  Gens.  Polk 
and  Hardee,  over  the  }<^ederals.  Federal  loss  4,000  killed  and 
wounc''3d  and  2,0O()  taken  i.)risoners.  Confederate  loss  1^,700 
killed  and  wounded. 

October  t).  The  city  uf  Galveston,  Texas,  occupied  by  the 
I'ederals   ...Skirmish   at   Middleburg,  A^a.     Federals  defeated. 

Cavalry  skirmish  near  Chaplin  Hill,  Ky.  The  Confederates 

.ruder  Col.  Scolt  defeated,  vritk  a  loss  of  1)  lulled  and  5  wounded. 

rederal  loss  5  killed  and  11  wounded Fight   near  Frankibrt, 

Ky.  Contederates  suffered  v^  defeat  bf  the'  Federals  under  Du- 
lULUit.  Confederate  loss,  4  killed  and  7-5  taken  prisoners.  Fede- 
ral loss  o  killed. 

October  lO-li.  Gen.  J.  i:.  B.  Stuart,  vith  a  force  of  2,00(> 
men,  makes  a  successfuk reconnoisancc  through  Pennsylvania, 
destroying  large  amounts  ,<jf' Federal  property  and  causing  a  great 
]>anic  amoniT  the  Yankee.^.     Duvins;  this  expedition  Gen.  Stunrt 


AND  REPOStTOIlY  OF  ISEFLTL  KNOWLEDGE.        '^1 

iiiad'3  one  of  tlio  most  extraordinary  marches  on  record,  marching 

06  miles  in  24  hours Fight  at  Augusta,  Ky.     A  party  of 

Confederates  after  surrenderinnr  '>verc  fired  upon  by  the  Yankee^'. 
Jit:  Col.  Prentice  v^as  killed.  The  Yankees  were  afterwards  ut- 
tacked  in  force  and  a  large  number  killed. 

October  17.  Pight  in  Harlan  co.,  Ky.  The  Confederates  at- 
tacked and  defeated  a  large  pa^ry  of  Union  men,  killing  4  and 
20  taken  prisoners. . .  .CJuerilla  lighting  near  Island  10,  Tenn. 
Confederates  defeated  t\'ith  a  loss  of  5  killed  and  11  vrouudcd. 
Federal  loss,  3  killed  and  7  ^vounded. 

Octobc^r  1(S.  Skirmish  near  TJioroughfare  l«ap.  Va.  Confed- 
erates repulsed. ..  .Murder  of  Confederates.  Ten  Confederate 
i.risoners  were;  .shot  dead  by  the  order  of  the  Federal  General, 
McNeil,  at  Palmyra,  .Mo.,  on  aecoiw.l.  of  a  rai<l  which  the  Con- 
federates had  made  intT)  the  town. 

October  18-'20.  Gen.  Bragg's  army  readies  Knoxvillc,  Tenn., 
'  'U  retreat  from  Ky.  * 

October  18.  Skirmlsii  ut  Lexington,  Ky.  Morgan's  cavalry 
makes  anotlier  successful  dash  into  tlie  city,  routing  the  Federals, 
killing  8  and  capturing  lAO. 

October  20.  Fighting  at  Pittman's  Ferrry,  Ark.  A  parly 
of  Confederate  Partisans  were  attacked  and  defeated  by  a  larjrc 
force  of  tiie  Federal  army. 

October  21.  Skirmishing  near  Nashville,  Tcuu.  Federals  de- 
feated an-l  driven  into  the  city. 

October  22.  Fight  at  Pocotaligo  and  Coo.sahatchie,  S.C.  Fc<i- 
<'rals  repulsed  and  driven  back.  Our  loss  22  killed  and  50  woun- 
ded.    Federal   loss  1.^   killed  and    lOU    wounded Battle  at 

Maysville,  Ark.  Our  forces  defeated,  with  a  loss  of  S2  killed 
and  wounded,     hcdoral  loss  7  killed  and  19  wounded, 

OctobcT-  2-'>,  f^kirmish  nesr  ^V'averly,  Tenn.  Our  forces  de- 
feated. 

October  27.  Battle  of  Albem-iic,  Bayou  Lafourche,  La.  A 
desperate  fight  occurred  in  which  our  forces  were  defeated  by  a 
vastly  superior  force  of  Federals.  Ourlorss  17  kiPs.'',  15  wounded, 
aud  208  taken  prisoners.     Col.    ^IcPhceters   of  our  forces   v^as 

killed  after  surrendering  to  the  Yankees A  Confederate  camp 

in  Ciarkso.a,  Mo.,  was  surprised  and  routed  ;  4  killed  and  40  taken 
{•fisoncrs. . .  .Skirmish  at  Snicker's  Gap,  Y^.  IVderak-  repulsed 
and  several  killed. 

October  28._  .flight  near  Fa^  jlteville,  Mo.  Our  forces  defeated, 
.Tith  a  loss  <;  P  5  killed.  Federal  loss  o  killed  and  4  wounded. 
...  .A  company  of  Confederates  were  surprised  and  routed  with 
aheavy  loss,  at'^fronzella.  Fin. 


98  THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES  ALMANAC, 

October  30,  Fight  at  Bollinger's  Mills,  Ark.  Our  forces  de- 
feated, several  taken  prisoners. 

October  31.  Skirmish  near  Catlett's  Station,  Va.  Federals 
routed. 

November  4.  Battle  at  Williaraston.  Our  forces  defeated  by 
a  superior  force  of  the  Yankees.  Our  loss,  4  killed  and  32 
wounded.     Federal  loss,  7  killed  and  28  wounded. 

November  5.  Skirmishing  near  Warren  ton,  Va.  Our  forces 
driven  fVom  the  place,  but  returned  again  reinforced,  and  defeated 
the  Federals,  compelling  them  to  retreat.     Federal  loss,  1  killed 

and   6  wounded.     Our  loss   none Gen.   McClellan,  of  the 

Yankee  army  removed  by  the  Government.  Gen.  Burnside  ap- 
pointed in  his  place. 

November  7.  Fight  at  Haymarket,  Va.  Major  Andrews  at- 
tacked a  large  body  of  Federals,  routing  them  and  capturing  30 
prisoners,  besides  taking  a  large  amount  of  Federal  stores. 

November  9.  The  Federals  made  a  raid  into  Fredericksburg,  and 
were  driven  from  the  town,  with  a  loss  of  5  killed  and  wounded. 
Confederate  loss,  1  killed  and  3  wounded A  large  force  of  Fed- 
erals attempted  to  land  at  St.  Mary's  Ga.,  and  were  repulsed  by 
the  Confederates.     The  Federals  afterwards  shelled  the  town. 

November  11.  Fight  at  Castleman's  Ferry,  Va.  Gen.  A.  P.  Hill 
repulsed  a  large  force  of  Federals  wlio  attempted  to  cross  the  river 
at  that  point. 

November  12.  Skirmish  near  Nashville,  Tenn.  Gen.  Forrest  de- 
feated the  Abolitionists  near  Nashville,  killing  15  and  wounding 

87 Fight  at  Madisonville,  Ky.     Col.  Johnson's  cavalry  made  a 

dash  into  the  town  and  scattered  tlie  Federals,  killing  23  and 
wounding  100. 

November  19.  Bombardment  of  Fort  McAllister,  Genesis  Point, 
Ga.  A  heavy  bombardment  by  the  Federals  was  kept  up  for  seve- 
ral hours,  when  the  Yankees  retired. 


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